How to Use snowball in a Sentence

snowball

1 of 2 noun

• This snow is perfect for making snowballs.
• There were no snowballs this time.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
• The snowball had simply grown too large to stop.
  — Steve Booren, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
• Leavitt pulled over and showed him how to make a snowball.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
• But these little small pacts start to snowball.
  — Sarah Rodman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
• If the snowball method will work better for you, that’s fine.
  — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 14 July 2022
• The fees keep growing, and the snowball keeps rolling.
  — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
• The idea is to start small and grow larger, like a snowball rolling down a hill.
  — David McMillin, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025
• This nucleus is made of ice and dust, which forms a dirty snowball.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
• The snowball seemed to be rolling downhill and picking up speed.
  — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
• 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
• That proved to be just the start of a rolling snowball of regulation.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2021
• Some experts liken it to trying to spot a snowball in a snowstorm.
  — Dr. Megha Gupta, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
• That number has grown over time, like a snowball racing down a mountain.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• At least one cop was repeatedly hit by snowballs, the video shows.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Comets are dirty cosmic snowballs that partially melt and form a tail as they near the sun.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
• Two common debt payoff methods are the snowball method and the avalanche method.
  — Becca Stanek, The Week, 26 July 2023
• This water is held (absorbed) in the air pockets of the snowball.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
• Two common methods for paying off debt are the debt avalanche method and the debt snowball method.
  — Becca Stanek, theweek, 5 Jan. 2024
• With a team that is proving there's no business like snowball business.
  — Jori Parys, CBS News, 8 June 2026
• From snowball cookies to whoopie pies the sweets are endless.
  — Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
• One cop was repeatedly hit by snowballs, the video shows.
  — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
• There’s just not a snowball’s chance in hell that that’s anywhere near accurate.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
• Imagine all the sledding races, the snowball fights, the hot chocolate, the hygge.
  — Elizabeth G. Dunn, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 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
• By the end of the week, the experiment snowballs into an all-out war game.
  — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• Perhaps a game that gets really big and is built on blockchain may have a snowball impact.
  — Ellen M. Zavian, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• But others might have criminal ties and there can be a snowball effect.
  — al, 29 Mar. 2022
• Two of the most popular methods for debt payoff are the debt snowball and the debt avalanche.
  — Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 14 May 2026
• 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

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.
• Such a streak in years past might have snowballed.
  — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
• Since then, things have snowballed.
  — Quispe López, Them., 17 Nov. 2025
• It’s snowballed year after year, and there’s just no one like him.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 29 Nov. 2025
• That’s when matters may snowball even more — or the whole thing falls apart.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2022
• That energy on both ends of the court had snowballed.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
• Things only snowballed from there.
  — Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2025
• Once the wine was bottled, things snowballed rather quickly.
  — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2026
• Here, the damage to science could snowball.
  — Kenneth M. Evans, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
• Just as years of poverty can snowball into higher rates of crime.
  — Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 24 Nov. 2020
• Evictions in the state can snowball from charges to warrants to arrests to jail time.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2020
• While each deposit may seem small, this money can snowball over time and surprise you.
  — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
• Sometimes that snowballs for a defense.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
• Or will the default numbers snowball into an avalanche?
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 23 Dec. 2025
• But as his videos spread online, the response quickly snowballed.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
• Uncover every corner of your craft and your skills will snowball over time.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2021
• 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
• Even a balance that feels manageable at first can snowball quickly over time.
  — Aly J Yale, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
• But then things snowballed and the stories began to sound like a James Bond movie.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• That still puts you ahead of the afternoon crunch, when delays are more likely to snowball.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
• That still puts you ahead of the afternoon crunch, when delays are more likely to snowball.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
• But within hours, the response began to snowball.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
• There’s no ceiling, so losses can quickly snowball.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 May 2026
• The mishaps started to snowball, compounding and rolling and coming in waves.
  — Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2019
• As Alverson and his clients entered more and more pageants, his acclaim snowballed.
  — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
• 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
• Even tiny acts of kindness can snowball into a wave of good mutual feelings.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2019
• That’s maturity and being able to stop things from snowballing.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2019
• Only time will tell if this snowballs into anything more than low-key pettiness though.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 22 Feb. 2020