Sentence examples for slab of snow from inspiring English sources

Stupidly, I hadn't checked out my exit in case a slab of snow broke off.

"Dang, not bad," Mr. Murphy said, skidding to a stop far below, a slab of snow avalanching by.

I fell into a shallow crevice and watched as a slab of snow broke into chunks that tumbled down like giant cinderblocks.

Skiing a few days later in Big Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Presnell was making his classic big-stance telemark turns when a giant slab of snow broke loose and swept him into a grove of trees.

But on the third run -- on a slope referred to as the North Shore by Utah mountain guides who know it well -- a two-foot-thick slab of snow suddenly separated under my feet.

The first thing to do is attempt to ski out of it, although as the slab of snow breaks from the layer beneath it and begins to move, accelerating down the mountain face like a book sliding off a tilted table, it becomes impossible for a skier to generate enough speed or change direction.

He does an expert job, leaving a slab of snow-white meat whose mildly nutty flavor is helped along by olive oil and lemon juice.

As snow melts and refreezes repeatedly, what collects comes in a variety of sculptural forms — in slender icicles, thick slabs of icy snow, rolling waves of crystallized snow, pools of blue ice.

A large white church dominated the town, but even that was dwarfed by the Mendenhall Glacier, a slab of ice and snow that blanketed the town's mountain backdrop.

"It is the slab avalanches, the big masses of snow that move along the ground like a flow of concrete, that concern us".

Chionophobia- Fear of snow.