How to Use snowdrift in a Sentence

snowdrift

noun
  • The car was almost buried in a snowdrift.
  • The snowdrift problem and variants of it are still active areas of study.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The cheese, though, is white Prairie Breeze, shaved fine and mounded like a snowdrift atop the bowl.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Yes, the sun might be glancing off the snowdrifts, and the birds may be chirping away with blithe exuberance.
    — Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Sprinkled with powdered sugar, these fudgy chocolate cookies look like they got caught in a snowdrift.
    — April Franzino, Woman's Day, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Like the train in Christie’s novel which gets stalled in a snowdrift, this is a project that could easily go off the rails.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The ice and snow didn’t help, putting him on his back frequently, and his shouts were muffled by the snowdrifts and the pane of my window.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
  • The road had one to five foot snowdrifts this weekend, and temperatures overnight were in the 20s.
    — Carina Julig, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
  • The road had up to five-foot snowdrifts this weekend, and temperatures overnight were in the 20s.
    — Carina Julig, The Denver Post, 25 June 2019
  • Be extra alert and remember that snowdrifts can hide smaller children.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Heavier rains, bigger tornados, deeper snowdrifts and then in some places, no doubt, worse droughts and fires and all the rest.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks.
    — The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The blizzard of 1873 left snowdrifts a dozen feet high on some Indiana farms.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The scraping of plow trucks and the roar of snowblowers echoed through town as cars sat buried in snowdrifts and neighbors spent hours clearing driveways.
    — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Rain then morphed into macadamia-nut-sized hail that pelted the stadium, leaving what looked like foot-high snowdrifts on the floor of each dugout.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • Because the main road through town tends to fill in with tall, impassable snowdrifts, the windswept beach is also a route that the village kids take to and from school.
    — Eva Holland, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • Roughly 650 feet from the beach, a large white shape moves in the shadows between the post office and a snowdrift as high as a house.
    — Eva Holland, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • The streets of New York were lined with snowdrifts stained black by soot, smog, and Model T motor oil.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
  • One opponent’s gym was so small a guy driving for a layup stumbled and fell through an outside door behind the basket into a snowdrift.
    — Bob Hill, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Major roadways leading to the stadium were cleared, with 5-foot snowdrifts lining the roads after they were plowed.
    — John Wawrow, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
  • On Sunday, the bear attempted to dig itself out of the hole, only to become wedged between the snowdrifts.
    — Isabella Rosario, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The poems are banked impressions, like snowdrifts after a blizzard, or deposits left by a receding tide.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Hours later, Syta got a frantic call from her mother after she’d been trapped in a snowdrift for several hours.
    — Brianna Sacks and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The snow is piling up in Long Branch, New Jersey, with wind gusts leading to snowdrifts.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The sun was setting, and Casey Ryan was exhausted after trying to dig his pickup truck out of a snowdrift.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Use safeguards and properly ventilate when using heat from a fireplace, space heater or wood stove and make sure gas furnaces are not blocked by a snowdrift.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Wall panels and wardrobe doors opened to reveal, variously, a garden, a snowdrift, and a deer carcass hanging on a gambrel.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • The storm dropped visibility to near zero and resulted in power outages and snowdrifts as high as 8 feet.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • On December 28, Scott’s body was found by a volunteer search party, buried in a snowdrift.
    — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
  • Winter snowdrifts accumulate into massive glacier-looking faces of compact snow right to the water's edge, running on for miles or as far as our eyes could see.
    — Bjorn Olson, Alaska Dispatch News, 30 July 2017

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