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snowdrift

noun

Definition of snowdrift

as in snowbank

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Recent Examples of snowdrift The powerful storm brought blizzard-like conditions to portions of the Carolinas and southern Virginia over the weekend, and caused some coastal areas to be buried in snowdrifts, forecasters said. — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026 The scraping of plow trucks and the roar of snowblowers echoed through town as cars sat buried in snowdrifts and neighbors spent hours clearing driveways. — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026 Each loop of the driveway produced an impassable snowdrift in winter, but by then Carol and Mike were on the coast, watching waving kelp fronds from their living room. — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025 Hours after Oberholtzer and Schnee were murdered, that same night, rescuers responded to a pickup stuck in a snowdrift on a mountain pass outside Breckenridge. — Christina Coulter, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for snowdrift

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With their guns drawn, the three officers at one point were able to surround Jones, who had a small snowbank to his back as began swaying back and forth in the street.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2026
Also in January, another ValuJet DC-9 with 30 people aboard slid into a snowbank after landing at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, closing the airport for nearly three hours.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026

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Skateboarders have flown in from every continent to ride the banks over the decades, and on Friday, a couple of locals came to say goodbye before the demolition.

— Maddie White, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
The company headquartered in Toronto is one of a number of banks trying to grow in a market dominated by the region’s Big Three banks — Bank of America, Truist and Wells Fargo.

— Chase Jordan July 31, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026

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