Sentence examples for snow words 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".

The word snow works in the same way.

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

Then, when we were stuck in an unseasonal snowstorm, the same worker volunteered to take my pack for me as I was struggling through thigh-deep snow — without words, since he didn't speak English.

In Snow's words, "This work is a temporally compressed, condensed recording of several weather-events which took place on and near a wild landscape in the Canadian Maritimes".

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".

Blended from the words "snow," "nor'easter" and "hurricane".

It's too cold to talk much and the falling snow muffles their words.

Whether Snow wrote those words, or anything like them, is doubtful: his copy was routinely rewritten and embellished.