How to Use snowball in a Sentence

snowball

1 of 2 noun

• This snow is perfect for making snowballs.
• Because of this, the snowball of a pup would do best in the home as the only pup.
  — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
• Imagine all the sledding races, the snowball fights, the hot chocolate, the hygge.
  — Elizabeth G. Dunn, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
• If the snowball method will work better for you, that’s fine.
  — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 14 July 2022
• The mistake gave Detroit a first-and-goal and was the start of an ugly snowball.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• The more the plot snowballs, the creakier Goosebumps becomes.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
• There are two common approaches: the snowball method and the avalanche method.
  — Kerri Anne Renzulli, wsj.com, 31 Oct. 2023
• That proved to be just the start of a rolling snowball of regulation.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2021
• Two common debt payoff methods are the snowball method and the avalanche method.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 26 July 2023
• The two most popular approaches are the debt avalanche and the debt snowball.
  — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• This nucleus is made of ice and dust, which forms a dirty snowball.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
• Two common methods for paying off debt are the debt avalanche method and the debt snowball method.
  — Becca Stanek, theweek, 5 Jan. 2024
• The first was the Sturtian snowball Earth, which began about 720 million years ago.
  — Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
• In 2017, images from the Hubble Space Telescope showed off the features of this fuzzy snowball of a comet.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
• Blizzard approach: The blizzard approach is a cross between the avalanche and the snowball.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 10 Feb. 2023
• Pull it out for an impromptu snowball fight one day when the weather is warmer and the snow has melted.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2021
• From snowball cookies to whoopie pies the sweets are endless.
  — Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
• There’s even a caramel apple that looks like a snowball, topped with white chocolate and coconut.
  — From Contributors and Staff, Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
• If the figure crosses one, there’s a chance the infection may snowball.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 1 July 2021
• Truth is, my four year old throws a meaner snowball than #BillsMafia.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• There are plenty of reasons to think a deal to acquire Durant doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in the desert of working.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022
• Some people suggest the debt snowball plan, which is paying off the smallest debts first.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
• However, some took it too far by throwing snowballs at the Air Force bench.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
• From there, things started to fall into place for the Avon offense and snowball for the Elyria defense.
  — Matt Lofgren, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps a game that gets really big and is built on blockchain may have a snowball impact.
  — Ellen M. Zavian, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Let the snow consolidate for an hour or more, until it is set up hard enough to form snowballs.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• Bring your ice cream scoop outside and make a bunch of high-quality snowballs and have a snowball fight.
  — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
• Think of it as a snowball effect whereby the wisdom of the crowd will naturally help your idea bloom.
  — Ludwig Melik, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• Call the smiley-face mission a tumbleweed; call it a snowball.
  — Leslie Barker, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2021
• With cars being turned around, the four pulled over at the gas station for a snowball fight and to take pictures with a deserted snowman.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021

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snowball

2 of 2 verb

• Problems snowball when early trouble signs are ignored.
• What started as a small annual concert has snowballed into a full-fledged music festival.
• That’s when matters may snowball even more — or the whole thing falls apart.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2022
• But then things snowballed and the stories began to sound like a James Bond movie.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• Evictions in the state can snowball from charges to warrants to arrests to jail time.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2020
• But that can quickly snowball and end up landing you with a ton of lights and a ton of trucks and a ton of crew to support it.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
• With a lot of young pitchers, those moments can snowball into having to be pulled out of the game.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2020
• The mishaps started to snowball, compounding and rolling and coming in waves.
  — Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2019
• The result was a U.S. stimulus plan that yesterday seemed to snowball by the hour.
  — Ben Holland, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
• Just as years of poverty can snowball into higher rates of crime.
  — Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 24 Nov. 2020
• Then, Stoudt allowed two doubles, four singles and a walk as the inning snowballed.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2023
• This test and others will try to change the orbit path of asteroids just a little to see how those changes snowball over time.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Sep. 2022
• The project snowballed when Knego, the Oceanside collector, got involved.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
• Missed payments and court fees can snowball into tens of thousands of dollars by the time an inmate walks free.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2019
• Innings snowballed on Lodolo after the Reds’ infield failed to turn ground balls into outs.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2023
• The fever pitch of feeling fed up or worn out, often with no end in sight, creates a negative loop that snowballs.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2020
• Because the cloud is scalable, a small win can easily snowball into a bigger one down the road.
  — Trisha Price, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• The twist on tradition caught the attention of the fashion world and orders from overseas snowballed.
  — Iliana Mier, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• The catch was that White had seen up close how money problems could snowball into homelessness and worse.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
• Gurney’s may have had a head start, but most resort fees began to appear in the late 1990s and have been snowballing ever since, surging over the last decade.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2023
• It’s been that kind of don’t-miss-a-moment stretch for Baltimore’s pro sports teams as the Orioles and Ravens’ success has snowballed over the past 12 months to reach a rare level.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• What started as one venue snowballed into 26 clubs in 20 cities, and the name became a staple of stand-up comedy.
  — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Dana Taylor: So why does graduate school debt tend to snowball?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Uncover every corner of your craft and your skills will snowball over time.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2021
• By the third act, what began as a teenage crush has snowballed into an alarming flirtation with the black bloc protest movement.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• That email, the Krauths said, caused the situation to snowball that weekend and tossed the family into a maelstrom.
  — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2019
• Then, early this year, protests over that new law snowballed into a pogrom in which dozens of people—mostly Muslims—have been killed.
  — Vidya Krishnan, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2020
• Guerra was greeted by a two-run single off the bat of Connor Wong, then things continued to snowball from there.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2023
• The economic costs of shutting schools can snowball quickly.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 7 Apr. 2020
• For Spotify investors, the concern is that the exodus could snowball in the coming days.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 7 May 2024