The phrase "blocks of snow" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a common way to describe large, solid pieces of snow. Example: The children spent the afternoon building forts out of blocks of snow in the backyard.
A friend, Tiisi Qisiiq, began cutting blocks of snow with a carpenter's crosscut saw.
The thousands of reindeer are driven into this Arctic camp and the unperturbed denizens of the North proceed to construct the comfortless igloos of blocks of snow and ice.
One perceives here that by the time the camera man starts to turn his crank Aguvaluk has already prepared several blocks of snow and that his cutting them out with a small knife is but a perfunctory action.
The igloo, usually made from blocks of snow and dome-shaped, is used only in the area between the Mackenzie River delta and Labrador where, in the summer, Inuit live in sealskin or, more recently, cloth tents.
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.
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.
Ivan Rodriguez, whose block of Snow on that play sealed the victory, would have been the most valuable player if one had been named.
KANGIQSUJUAQ, Quebec — Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth in concentrated effort, trimmed the edges on a block of snow above his head.
One judge said the design resembles a "block of snow and ice that has been shaped by the wind".
