How to Use snowfield in a Sentence

snowfield

noun
  • The mountains rise up like a curtain wall, crowned by a long buttress of snowfields and ice against the blue sky.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 24 May 2025
  • The dormant volcano has 12 glaciers and snowfields.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Tourists took selfies while a pair of snowboarders prepared to hike up the closed road to carve up a snowfield.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 24 May 2025
  • Above treeline, the terrain is steep, with loose rock, big drops, and, in winter, may have snowfields and icy chutes.
    — Outside, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Rock glaciers will not replace the glaciers and snowfields that are disappearing.
    — Ashlesha Khatiwada, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • Video of three wolverines at the end of a snowfield then running through a meadow into a forest.
    — Hannah Seo, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The route’s steep and icy snowfields linger into early summer and have led to a fatal slide every few years.
    — Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
  • While traversing a snowfield, though, Forrest twisted his knee.
    — Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Just before 11am, a gust of wind dispersed the fog and the snowfields on the summit appeared.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The endless snowfields glitter with millions of ice crystals.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • As the boys cut across the snowfield, a massive amount of increasingly unstable snow lay above them.
    — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
  • At the top of the snowfield, the patient was raised an additional 50 feet over an eroding ridge.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • After the day of fieldwork in Glacier, the men packed up their gear and started slipping and sliding their way back down the snowfield.
    — Kylie Mohr, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The rescue helicopter battled with the wind and had to drop the crew on a snowfield nearly two thousand feet below the summit.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The sheer bulk of the suit might confuse the human eye from a distance, but in large open spaces, like snowfields, anything that looks a little odd will stand out.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Search and rescue volunteers discovered his body the next day in a snowfield below Capitol’s north face.
    — The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
  • The pigment produced by the algae then dyes the surrounding area a darker color, giving the snowfield a pink or red color.
    — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Under the weight of even a single skier, an unstable snowfield can shift and send loose snow thundering down a mountainside.
    — Lou Dzierzak, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The individual's death comes just days after a hiker fell nearly 200 feet down a snowfield in the state.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 27 July 2025
  • That afternoon, a helicopter inserted a team of rescuers onto a ridgeline above the snowfield.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In one instance, the small snowfields feeding one of our long-term study sites largely disappeared, causing the stream below it to stop flowing by late summer.
    — Ashlesha Khatiwada, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • The bright red photosynthetic algae -- which can thrive in very low temperatures -- are located in snowfields around the world.
    — Fox News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Higher up, the trail crosses over snowfields that persist into the summer months, providing a true alpine experience.
    — AFAR Media, 7 July 2025
  • Simon Beck carefully plots his course before shuffling through a windswept snowfield high in the Rocky Mountains.
    — Thomas Peipert, The Know, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Patches of snow are frequent, with the longest snowfield about 200 feet, with snowdrifts in spots as high as 5 feet, that hikers are detouring around.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
  • Rugged slabs of rock speckled with glaciers and snowfields protrude through the clouds and overlook the entry to Grand Teton National Park.
    — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • The wall terminates at a series of crevasses that litter a 55-degree snowfield for a few hundred feet before aproning out into a flat expanse on the glacier.
    — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
  • After overnighting here, hikers strap on crampons and set off up the snowfield to the summit, where the Atlas Mountains open out and the views are relentless.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 25 July 2022
  • The agency explains that Read became stuck in the mountain after reaching the first saddle and encountering a snowfield covering the trail.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
  • The route gains steady elevation to the glistening shore of Saint Mary’s Lake, which is set beneath a semi-permanent snowfield.
    — Abigail Bliss, Denver Post, 13 May 2026

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