Examples of snowdrift in a Sentence
The car was almost buried in a snowdrift.
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Beignets, Bourbon Street and Beyond Start your day the way generations of visitors and locals have — with a plate of pillowy beignets buried under a snowdrift of powdered sugar and a cup of dark chicory coffee at Café Du Monde.
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Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
The cheese, though, is white Prairie Breeze, shaved fine and mounded like a snowdrift atop the bowl.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
Compared with the ostensible consequences of the prisoner’s dilemma, getting fleeced in the snowdrift problem’s scenario isn’t quite as disastrous.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2026
The snow is piling up in Long Branch, New Jersey, with wind gusts leading to snowdrifts.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
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Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
The cheese, though, is white Prairie Breeze, shaved fine and mounded like a snowdrift atop the bowl.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
Compared with the ostensible consequences of the prisoner’s dilemma, getting fleeced in the snowdrift problem’s scenario isn’t quite as disastrous.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2026
The snow is piling up in Long Branch, New Jersey, with wind gusts leading to snowdrifts.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowdrift. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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snowdrift
noun
snow·drift
-ˌdrift 
: a bank of drifted snow
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