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Recent Examples of snowdrift
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.
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Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
On Long Island, where open farm fields can expose roads to snowdrifts, highway superintendents are preparing by checking snow fences, which help trap windblown snow, and readying large snow-blowing trucks.
—Anusha Mathur, NPR, 24 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
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Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
On Long Island, where open farm fields can expose roads to snowdrifts, highway superintendents are preparing by checking snow fences, which help trap windblown snow, and readying large snow-blowing trucks.
—Anusha Mathur, NPR, 24 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowdrift
Noun
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Beardsley’s remains were discovered amid a snowbank on Dec. 17, 1977, in the Emigrant Gap area of Placer County.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2026
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The front of the GMC struck the passenger side of the Subaru, pinning it against a snowbank, said Officer Carlos Perez, a spokesperson for the CHP’s Trucke office.—
Daniel Hunt,
Sacbee.com,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Set the scene Set back from Via del Corso, one of Rome’s main arteries, this former noble palazzo, the 15th-century Palazzo Salviati Cesi Mellini, was also a bank before its present incarnation.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Carter presented Roosevelt with the deed for about 700,000 acres on the northern bank of the Rio Grande.—
Letters to the Editor,
Washington Post,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Snowdrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowdrift. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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