dead of winter

noun phrase

: the middle of the winter

He left in the dead of winter.

Examples of dead of winter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This kind of growth deserves its own celebration, not the dreary dead of winter. — Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 24 Feb. 2026

Our production team had to literally make a dead of winter forest seem like summer. — Kerensa Cadenas, IndieWire, 20 June 2024

The transition is fastest during March because about 10 days before and after the equinox, the Earth’s tilt causes the sunlight that hits a region to increase more rapidly than in the middle of summer or dead of winter. — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2024

Rhymes for dead of winter

• overwinter
• teleprinter
• midwinter
• reenter
• minter
• printer
• sinter
• splinter
• sprinter