How to Use snowdrop in a Sentence

snowdrop

noun
  • Rain softens soil, the snowdrop, shy, appears.
    — Contributing Monitor Poets, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2025
  • These white flowers are sometimes referred to as snowdrops due to their color and shape.
    — Ashley Martens, Redbook, 16 May 2023
  • These white flowers are sometimes referred to as snowdrops due to their color and shape.
    — Ashley Martens, Redbook, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Plant snowdrops in the fall for late-winter flowers that offer the promise of spring.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, ELLE Decor, 23 Aug. 2023
  • If snowdrop was Homer’s moly, over the ages it was almost forgotten.
    — Matt Kaplan, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2015
  • Crocuses, hyacinths, and snowdrops are the first to burst from the thawing ground.
    — Katelyn Chef, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Some winter plants, like snowdrops and crocus, can bloom even in snowy conditions.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Plant daffodils, tulips, snowdrops, and other spring-blooming bulbs.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Spring-flowering bulbs such as winter aconites, snowdrops, and grape hyacinths come back for many years.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 31 July 2023
  • Just like garlic, spring flowers like tulips, daffodils, and snowdrops need to be planted in the fall to bloom.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Pollinator plants like crocus, primrose and snowdrops will bloom even when snow is on the ground.
    — Dean Fosick, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
  • Montgomery says snowdrop bulbs should be chilled for 10-12 weeks to help force blooming.
    — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 18 Jan. 2026
  • From the two private docks, a tiny gothic church, spotless as a snowdrop, could be seen roosting atop a nearby hill.
    — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, some winter flowers, like crocus and snowdrop, can emerge and bloom even in snowy conditions.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • January has two birth flowers—the carnation and the snowdrop.
    — Irene Richardson, Country Living, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Add winter flowers like snowdrops and narcissus to your vases.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Her garden, with her childhood home in the middle of it, is a place of native azaleas and beech trees, of snowdrops and water oaks.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Also, don’t rule out planting bulbs like daffodils, snowdrops, and crocuses.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Think hydrangeas in deco pots and blooming bulbs like tulips, daffodils, and snowdrops everywhere.
    — Mackenzie Nichols, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Plants like mahonias and snowdrops add welcome winter color to gardens.
    — Asia London Palomba, The Spruce, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Such precise evaluation has turned snowdrop fanciers into botanists.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The snowdrop is also visually similar to the description of moly as being dark at the root with a white flower.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • For year-round color, intersperse small bulbs like crocuses, snowdrops, and mini irises.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
  • One trait that has attracted some breeders is the creation of a spiky-petaled flower that, to my eye, is unrecognizable as a snowdrop.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • In the Midwest, daffodils, crocuses, snowdrops, and grape hyacinths come to mind when seeing green foliage push through the snow.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Instead, try planting spring bulbs like snowdrops, crocuses, and miniature daffodils (which are shunned by squirrels rooting for food).
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 12 June 2023
  • To start with, the snowdrops) in my home driveway garden (Galanthus nivalis) are now in full bloom— yes — in January!
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Some gardeners in Zone 7 may choose to pre-chill tulip, daffodil, crocus, hyacinth, and snowdrop bulbs in case there’s a mild winter.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In winter, most gardeners’ thoughts turn to spring and the new crocuses, daffodils, irises, snowdrops and tulips that will be pushing up through the earth and blooming.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
  • From climbing winter jasmine to romantic snowdrops, there's something to match every home, soil type, and level of sun exposure.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 7 June 2023

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