Sentence examples for slippery snow from inspiring English sources

But there is a lot to absorb all at once -- the equipment, the cold, the slippery snow and that dastardly pull of gravity.

It begins in the early 1870s on a January night at the opera, where society has been "transported through the slippery snow streets", their "cold-and-gin congested coachmen waiting under the portico of the theater".

The storm, which left up to eight inches of dry, slippery snow on parts of New Jersey and five inches on Central Park, created particular hazards on the region's roads and highways.

The black-and-white newsreel of that game is an unintentional masterpiece of moody contrast as a dark, oblong ball soars over wet behemoths in a slippery snow ballet.

7.54pm GMT Mary Ann Bova walks along a slippery snow-covered sidewalk during a winter storm in Buffalo, N.Y. on Friday.

So we were never quite sure if we'd nailed the next downshift, a big worry if you wanted that engine braking to slow the car on a slippery, snow-covered road.

I helped my now-tranquil child out of the car and held his hand as we walked up the slippery, snow-dusted driveway.

Rain makes rock slippery, and snow & ice are very nasty--you climb with bare hands.

On a field left slippery from snow early in the game, the Packers built a 19-0 first-half lead that was trimmed to 19-17 before Allen Rossum's 92-yard kickoff return for a touchdown with 4 minutes 16 seconds left.

Bad conditions were made worse, Mr. Laney said, by a kind of layering effect — ice sheets from floods or leaky dikes that couldn't be removed before the storm struck are now covered by slippery, drifting snow.

Mark Cox, director of the Bridgestone Winter Driving School in Bridgestone, Colo., says drivers should know the weight and drivetrain of their car and know the condition of their tires before they venture onto potentially slippery or snow-bound roads.