How to Use snowed in in a Sentence
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Cars were buried in the parking lot, leaving many fans snowed in.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
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Spann was in the station when Burns called to say he was snowed in.
—Jeremy Gray | [email protected], al, 13 Jan. 2023
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Don't wait until you're snowed in to order a shovel—get one now.
—Amanda Tarlton, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2020
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On the first night of the rest of his life, Jim Harbaugh got snowed in.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2022
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Her camera crew had planned to meet her at a nearby hotel, but ended up snowed in on the street.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
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Residents have told horror stories about being stuck, and snowed in at homes with no way in or out.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
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Whether you’re snowed in, or just dread going out, a game night is a great way to spend a cold February evening.
—Contributing Writer Emily Farris, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
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Two people had been snowed in their cabin since December 6th.
—Alex Sundby, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2022
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However, her plans are derailed when she is snowed in with her former crush, now nemesis Tyler.
—Isa Luzarraga, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
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The pair are snowed in by a surprise snowstorm, leaving them to confront their past together while they are stuck in the airport overnight.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
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Shahida Muhammad, her husband, and their one-year-old baby were snowed in their home without power.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
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It was surrounded by a big fence on about an acre and a half of property, always snowed in, and six of my seven kids were there, sometimes all seven.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
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From the effort to get here, to the possibility that sometimes in the winter you can be snowed in or shut down because of the weather for two or three days.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020
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Semans and his wife, Barbara, were snowed in for 15 days, using a propane space heater to ward off the cold after losing power.
—Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
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Pittsburgh man snowed in days after storm Joe Emmett and his wife live on Aisbett Street in Garfield.
—Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
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While the main roads are clear after snow dumped down on the area over the weekend, many residents are still snowed in through the Uniontown and Masontown areas.
—Erika Stanish, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
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With his car snowed in, Van Buren took public transportation — first a bus, then a subway — and walked the final seven blocks to the stadium.
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
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Up to 6 inches of snow was forecast Tuesday for northern Scotland, where some people have already been snowed in by previous falls.
—Mike Corder, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
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Chances are, you’ll probably get snowed in by all of the Christmas releases and have zero chance to make any noise on the Hot 100 until the new year.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2022
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Theater employee Kristen Epp, 19, recently moved to the mountains and didn’t know what to do after being snowed in.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
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Because of the remote locations in which people hunt for the bounty, several searchers have ended up drowning, falling, or perishing after being snowed in.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
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Advertisement Teresa Beardsley said her mother had complained of flu-like symptoms and being snowed in during the blizzard.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
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Anthony Cimino, a 51-year-old retiree, said he’s been snowed in for about a week in the mountain community of Running Springs.
—John Antczak, Amy Taxin and Ben Finley, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
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To make matters worse, supplies are dwindling, not just because people are snowed in, but because two of the three area supermarkets have been red-tagged—one actually had its roof collapse under the weight of the snow.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
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More than 600 Orange County middle school students were among those stuck in the San Bernardino mountains after getting snowed in while attending camps last week.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
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This wasn't uncommon, unfortunately—there was a time when people who got snowed in while traveling through Colorado turned their fellow travelers into meals beside Saguache Creek.
—Charlie Sosnick, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2025
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Lastreto and Chaitanya were snowed in for four weeks when a bitter storm blanketed the bumpy two-mile road that leads to a large meadow where their 190-acre homestead houses their eponymous brand, Swami Select.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2023
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San Bernardino County on Wednesday launched a new service to deliver medication refills to homes, responding to concerns that prescriptions for elderly residents who were snowed in were running out.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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California residents snowed in after heavy snowfall Authorities said some residents in the mountains east of Los Angeles may be stranded in their homes for at least another week as plows struggle against back-to-back snowstorms.
—Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
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The View also continued without a live studio audience on Monday and Tuesday, with moderator Whoopi Goldberg even getting snowed in at her home, forcing her to join the telecast virtually at the top of the week.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
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