snowdrift

[ UK /snˈə‍ʊdɹɪft/ ]
NOUN
  1. a mass of snow heaped up by the wind
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How To Use snowdrift In A Sentence

  • But he was so exhausted that he tripped into a snowdrift and fell at once into a deep, dreamless sleep. THE BROKEN GOD
  • She struggled through snowdrifts up to her knees to get to the picket line, she held her sign high even when the winter winds gusted so strongly they threatened to carry it away—and threatened to carry her away. Uprising
  • So, putting off the idea of moving to the sunny coasts of Portugal and living in a villa, he threw himself back into the deep, crisp snowdrifts.
  • She stumbled and her hand went elbow high into a snowdrift. ROUGH JUSTICE
  • `His car's stuck in a snowdrift some miles up the road," she said. A WORM OF DOUBT
  • Local authorities often work in conjunction with the emergency services, by helping to clear snowdrifts and putting salt onto roads to help keep them free from ice.
  • The floor and most of the counters were blanketed in a thick snowdrift of flour, marked with trails of footprints where they had walked through it.
  • Snow cover there was almost 50 cm deep and there were numerous snowdrifts.
  • In all probability, his sudden "souse" into the water had astonished Bruin himself; -- from that moment all his thoughts were to provide for his own safety, and, with this intention, he was endeavouring to get back to the surface of the snowdrift, when Alexis first caught sight of his snout. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
  • Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
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