Sentence examples for through snowbound from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, February 22 , 1936P. 16 A trip through snowbound country, at last reaching old man Baird's place.

A half-dozen trucks, among hundreds reviewed, were inexplicably idle, or moving through snowbound streets with their plows raised for no apparent reason.

By Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, February 22 , 1936P. 16 A trip through snowbound country, at last reaching old man Baird's place.

There was a notion of manliness behind this mythology, and I like to give myself manly chores at Christmas: scraping the ice off the drive, bringing in the coal … and I'd like to do that thing where you have to put chains on your car tyres when driving through snowbound country.

The American suspicion then was that Mr. bin Laden and other fugitives might have fled the cave complex in the Tora Bora area of eastern Afghanistan when it came under intensive bombing by American B-52's and might have traveled through snowbound mountain passes into Pakistan.

* Under Hill, which takes players through snowbound tunnels and beyond.

Snow nearly undid the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay of New York — who made the very unfortunate mistake in 1969 of plowing through a snowbound street in Queens in a limousine — and that of Michael A. Bilandic after a 1979 blizzard in Chicago.

But as the storm cleared, the Eastern seaboard was left to struggle Thursday through its lingering aftermath: snowbound airports; federal agencies in the nation's capital shut down again, as they have all week; roads coated in sleet; and schools seemingly everywhere but New York City still shuttered or set to open hours behind schedule.

For four blocks they bucked the wind and then Woody broke through the drifts to the snowbound mansion, where they both had to push the wrought-iron gate because of the drift behind it.

We disembarked at the Schatzalp's deserted front patio and rode an old elevator with carpeted walls to an upper floor, where we went out a back door, over a footbridge, and down a path that tunnelled through towering drifts to a snowbound chalet.

One of the film's biggest fans would appear to have been Stanley Kubrick, who dropped a spaceman down into one of the baroque bedchambers of "Marienbad" at the end of "2001" and spent much of "The Shining" trying to out-dolly Resnais through the corridors of a snowbound hotel populated by ghosts right out of the "Marienbad" party circuit.