Sentence examples for a bad winter from inspiring English sources

Forgive me for being totally sceptical about the chancello'r excuse for a contraction in the economy, but did we not also have a bad winter in 2009? or doesn't his memory go back that far?

There will be plenty of holly berries this Christmas – and no, this doesn't mean we have a bad winter ahead, as folklore would have you believe, but reflects the fact we had a good late spring.

It has been a bad winter.

"The almanac says it's going to be a bad winter.

"But it wouldn't coincide with a bad winter and spring.

(Perhaps it had had a bad winter one year).

Sure, he (or occasionally she) had a bad 2008.

"Last year was just a bad summer, that's business.

Still, no one is anticipating a bad summer.

"The result was a bad summer," said Chivers.

We've had a bad summer this summer, and we have to be ready for next summer.