Sentence examples for they were snow from inspiring English sources

They were snow buntings, looking like little angels, especially when they flew against the rapidly setting sun.

She sunk into the shards as smoothly as if they were satin, as if they were snow, and the limestone gleamed around her, an ice field, each tile with its swollen pillowed edge, each with a shadow pattern faint as breath.

"They were snow white, like a bed sheet," Hafen said.

But with the house on a densely wooded slope, they were snowed in often.

When nine Republicans supported the Democratic proposal, they were snowed under with faxes, letters and telephone calls.

They were snowed in at work, Elfin said, and The Post put them up for the night at the Vista International Hotel.

"Would you understand that?" And the funny thing is, I do: my parents lived in a hilltop Yorkshire village where virtually every year they were snowed up, sometimes for weeks on end.

At times some felt they were "snowed under with the acute stuff before you even get to the chronic stuff".

But there they are snowed in together; he cannot get home.

Only 100,000 people live in Ladakh and between November and May, when the temperature drops to as low as minus 20, they are snowed in.

Based on the novel by famous horror writer Stephen King, The Shining tells the story of a frustrated writer who tries to murder his family in an isolated hotel where they are snowed in for the winter.