snowdrifts

Definition of snowdriftsnext
plural of snowdrift

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for snowdrifts
Noun
  • The trail takes visitors along Rottenwood Creek where, at this time of year, thousands of dimpled trout lilies (Erythronium umbilicatum) create bright yellow carpets on the hillsides and stream banks.
    Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The show took him to Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall, India’s Bodhi Tree, Mayan temples in Guatemala, the pyramids of Egypt and the banks of the Ganges River.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Instead, Zeisig treats the project like a beat tape, preferring static mats of sound and dynamically unyielding drifts over crescendoes and catharsis.
    Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Konrad, 24, drifts between Berlin’s techno clubs and a slow self-destruction until summoned to identify a body that may be his mother’s – a German internationalist guerrilla fighter who abandoned him when a child.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Remnants of shell middens (high mounds of shells accumulated from long term group settlement) can still be found within the reserve.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Followers of the Hopewell tradition constructed the Toolesboro mounds.
    Michael Plummer, Des Moines Register, 1 Mar. 2026
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“Snowdrifts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snowdrifts. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.

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