Sentence examples for block of snow from inspiring English sources

Sergeant Rice moved a block of snow, only to discover a thigh.

"I moved a block of snow and saw it was a thigh," he said.

Ivan Rodriguez, whose block of Snow on that play sealed the victory, would have been the most valuable player if one had been named.

Taking the day off to clear her entire West Side block of snow.

My earliest memories are of swinging in a hammock between spruce trees while grown-ups roasted black bear meat on a campfire; fishing for trout with my parents on Wolverine lake; playing outside our house when I was about six, cutting out blocks of snow to build an igloo because I wanted to be Julie from [1972 children's novel] Julie of the Wolves.

The blocks of snow dropping off Villa Park's Trinity Road stand mercifully avoided Paul Lambert as he stood alone in his technical area - but that was the only good news amid a blizzard of bad tidings for the Scot.

Avalanche forecasters have employed loaded column stability tests for decades, stacking blocks of snow on top of an isolated snowpack column until the column fractures in shear or collapses.

On 8 January, the pair about 100 mile from the hut, Mawson recorded: Mawson buried Mertz in his sleeping bag under rough-hewn blocks of snow, along with the remaining photographic plates and an explanatory note.

He must have had the story in mind when he made us an igloo by stacking blocks of compacted snow in a circle, eventually forming a hemisphere.

In it, they use shovels and saws to carve out thick blocks of white snow, which they shape and fit together into igloos about half the size of a compact car: As well as the igloos in Davos, some Mongolian-style tents, called yurts, were erected, according to Occupy WEF's Twitter feed.

Rescue workers were forced to use skis to reach the hotel in the country's mountainous Abruzzo region, as the surrounding roads were blocked by mounds of snow.