Sentence examples similar to snow word from inspiring English sources

You'd expect more nuance from someone who could come up with all those snow words.

Sticking strictly to lexemes, or minimal meaningful units of language, Anthony C. Woodbury has catalogued about fifteen distinct snow words in one Eskimo language, Central Alaskan Yupik roughly the same number as there are in English.

Picking up my post each morning became an adventure: one week brought a "weather-book" of Orcadian wind and snow words, with a head of bog-cotton pressed between the pages; and a word list found "on a faded piece of paper between the 100 or so sheets of an account my father left of his early years in a working-class and Methodist family, in a remote Yorkshire dale".

Graciella Cavazos would say only that she began to snow — four words — and smile bashfully whenever anyone pressed her for details.

But by the end, we hear Sansa echo Snow's words of unity: "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives".

Once you have reached proficiency your stride should eliminate snow-john a word describing snow that is flung by the back of your shoe towards your rear end.

The opening track on Kate Bush's album, 50 Words for Snow, her son Albert providing the voice of the snowflake.

One man speaks rapturously of the most beautiful graffiti he ever saw in Minsk, the single word "snow" on a wall.

For a final stop, grab a nieve (snow), a generic word for frozen desserts, at another museum of sorts, the Museo de Nieves Manolo (Alcalá 706; 52-951-143-9253).

The use of the word "snow", Welsman figured, would indicate that the holidays involved not just skiing but other snowsport activities such dog-sledding and snowmobiling, too.

Language reveals a lot about the culture it springs from, as anyone grappling with more than 40 Finnish variations on the word "snow" can attest.