How to Use snowbound in a Sentence

snowbound

adjective
  • We were snowbound for a week.
  • The truth is, this place is a playground every day of the year, snowbound or not.
    — Duncan Madden, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The town, which spends much of the year in a snowbound hush, was enveloped in a media storm.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • These snowbound cities that kissed the shores of the Great Lakes tried to live up to that privilege.
    — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Other snowbound drivers and their passengers were given blankets and food.
    — Salman Masood, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • In Oregon, a vaccination team stranded on a snowbound highway went from car to car offering doses that would go bad in six hours.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Philipakis shows me photos of his snowbound sheep, the animals almost indistinguishable from the white cover except for their eyes and noses.
    — Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile, transportation companies and snowbound retailers are hoping that roads can be cleared before stocks of fuel and groceries are gone.
    — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Mal, Dubrov, and Mikhael cross into snowbound Fjerdan territory.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Economists believe that an unusually cold and snowbound March had some impact on growth, as did strikes in Germany and France.
    — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • The moose explosion has damaged the park's vegetation, particularly balsam fir, their food of choice during long, snowbound winters.
    — John Flesher, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Even as the snow continued to fall, Boston residents peppered the city’s 311 public service request board with reports of snowbound city streets.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Then Southwest officials learned early Monday that the airport was effectively snowbound.
    — Randy Diamond, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Here, regardless of the season, from snowbound winters to shimmering summers, Mother Nature is definitely the star of this show.
    — Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2017
  • And with a ski season that runs from late November to mid April and a bounty of pistes and terrain to suit all skill levels but minus the crowds of more famous resorts, snowbound stoke is as good as guaranteed.
    — Duncan Madden, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Holed up in snowbound western Massachusetts living off thin dining hall coffee and forties of malt liquor, the innocent-yet-ironic taste of the fluffernutter resonated with our homesick hearts.
    — TheWeek, 2 May 2020
  • Then in 2014, Esteban Santiago headed northwest for this snowbound city.
    — Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2017
  • First, the whole drivetrain had to come out, followed by the fabrication of a custom three-inch lift kit to enable the 370Zki to better suffer the drifts and moguls of outrageous snowbound fortune.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 4 Feb. 2018
  • And in December, faced with prospect of spending Christmas isolated in a snowbound log cabin with her parents and her ex, the single princess posted a tongue-in-cheek conversation with Santa.
    — PEOPLE.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Across this American tundra, people called their heating-oil companies for emergency supplies and sat stranded on the sides of roads as tow-truck companies reported five-hour wait times to jump-start a dead battery or tow away a snowbound car.
    — Jess Bidgood, Katharine Q. Seelye and Jack Healy, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Aside from a barber shop in Harlem or a barroom on the Bowery, an old boarding house in a snowbound city in upstate New York is a great place to run into colorful characters like the ones who figure in this one-man show.
    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The acclaimed authors of Blackout return for a series of interconnected stories about Black teen love, this time set at Christmastime in surprisingly snowbound Atlanta.
    — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Poloncarz said there is no emergency service available in Buffalo and several populous communities surrounding it because so many emergency vehicles are snowbound.
    — Jake Bleiberg, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • In the 1840s, a party of Midwestern migrants making their way to California became snowbound and succumbed to madness, murder and cannibalism.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • An unknown Connecticut family provided solace to snowbound travelers stranded Tuesday night by offering oranges to motorists stopped for hours on I-95.
    — Rick Green, courant.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • In 2006, a long, hot autumn in Norway resulted in an explosion of discoveries in the snowbound Jotunheimen mountains, home to the Jötnar, the rock and frost giants of Norse mythology.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Set in a snowbound rural town, Northern Traces centers on seasoned Montreal investigator Sergeant Guillaume Pelletier, played by Danny Gilmore.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026

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