How to Use winter in a Sentence

winter

1 of 2 noun

• We're in for a cold winter this year, I hear.
• She traveled there two winters ago.
• They spend winters in Florida.
• That city was the site of fierce fighting over the winter.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Black Levi’s and a black T-shirt in the summer and black sweater in the winter.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The winter blues are behind us and spring is in full swing.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• In the fall and winter, Springsteen and the band, when healthy, are back in North America.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 12 Sep. 2023
• In winter, the spring is closed to swimmers and open to manatees.
  — Bonnie Gross, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Clean drains and rain gutters before the winter storms.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• The first day of spring will kick off with a weather pattern that feels a lot like this past winter.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
• Here, snow sports dominate in the winter while hiking, wine tours, and the arts thrive year-round.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2023
• Feed them about once a month from spring through fall, then stop during winter.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 17 Aug. 2023
• The storm, made more severe because of El Nino and climate change, is the largest so far in the state this winter.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• This guide provides fresh ideas and adds twists to winter classics.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Get inspired by the colors of the coast or take it back to nature with fresh winter foliage.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2023
• The snowy weather will be quite a change of pace for the region, as many cities in the Northeast are in the midst of their warmest winter on record.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• Keep your hands off the thermostat and opt for a more clever and cozy way to stay toasty these coming winter nights.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2024
• They aren’t expected to be one of the teams that make a nine-figure offer to Ohtani this winter.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Sunday’s win over the Browns was a bit of a silver lining on a dreadful, gloomy and cold winter day.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
• In Minnesota, a winter storm warning was in effect in the north.
  — Scott McFetridge and Sean Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• When winter grinds on, do as the Danes do: Rather than resist, embrace and savor the season.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2024
• Plants grown in greenhouses can be forced for winter bloom.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
• Allow your pets to use their natural furry coat to keep them warm in the winter months.
  — Laurie Larsh, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• This three-in-one puffer transitions through to your fourth trimester in harsh winter weather.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 23 Feb. 2024
• Trea Turner signed with the Philadelphia Phillies in the winter.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The purpose of the 24-hour gathering was to bid farewell to winter and usher in the warmth of spring with fire, food, and festivities.
  — Sarah Wood, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
• The prospect of a second winter of bombardments adds to a darkening mood here.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
• When one Uranian pole is facing the sun, the other is shrouded in a cold, dark, 21-year-long winter.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• This is another task where small hands can help: Enlist your kids to pack up their own winter clothes for the season.
  — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Get ready for a million stories about Ohtani signing with the Yankees next winter.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023

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winter

2 of 2 verb

• The birds will winter in the southern part of the country.
• The farm agreed to winter our horses for us.
• My family winters in Florida.
• The hot toddy is to winter what the bourbon smash is to warmer months.
  — Liza Weisstuch, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
• Two or three guys could have wintered here and made it, or spent the last winter of their lives here.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• Enjoy the herbs for the season and don’t worry about wintering them.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2018
• But as the climate heats up, the geese are wintering farther and farther north.
  — Lakshmi Supriya, Science | AAAS, 11 Oct. 2017
• The bayou here used to flood during the winter and attract a lot of wintering ducks.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2019
• In turn, the deer rely on these old-growth forests for their wintering habitat.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2020
• The conjecture is that this was a cabin built by the Maclaren party to winter over.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• This makes the puffin’s wintering grounds all the more important.
  — Robert F. Bukaty, National Geographic, 19 Feb. 2016
• This makes the puffin’s wintering grounds all the more important.
  — Robert F. Bukaty, National Geographic, 19 Feb. 2016
• For the last seven years, Dolphin has wintered in Seward while Henry worked on her.
  — Doug Capra, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 June 2017
• The main herds have been far away, absent here most of the winter, and these likely are survivors from stragglers that wintered farther east.
  — Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
• The Swallowtails’ metamorphosis takes place over the course of the season, wintering over.
  — Lois Szymanski, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Sep. 2019
• Streams of them funnel through the country’s southern tip, traveling to and from wintering grounds in Africa and nesting grounds in Europe.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• More than a foot of snow fell in parts of the Pacific Northwest, with snow covering areas that were more accustomed to winter rain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• After wintering in the north everyone hurried back to warmer places.
  — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Sep. 2014
• And, as the weather gets colder, there is so much more to cover: how to winter-proof your car, how to drive cautiously in ice and snow, and how to trouble-shoot cold-weather problems.
  — Jasmin Radoncic, Good Housekeeping, 5 Dec. 2018
• Golden eagles are not common across Kentucky, or in the east, but some have been wintering in Bernheim Forest for years.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2018
• Many of the tennis players are wintering in warmer places right now, including Dressel, who is in Arizona.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 10 Mar. 2018
• On a recent weekday, pensioners wintering nearby were among the few visitors to the launch site.
  — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
• Witness wintering moose, bison, elk, fox, and bald eagles with beauty of the Tetons surrounding you.
  — Brandon Perlman, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2017
• One of Franklin’s wintering camps was identified on Beechey Island, but searchers found nothing else that revealed Franklin’s fate.
  — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
• From its wintering grounds in Africa, the bird flies thousands of miles north to Europe to lay eggs in time for the emergence of winter moth caterpillars, which appear for a few weeks each spring to munch on young oak leaves.
  — Author: Livia Albeck Ripka, Brad Plumer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Sue and husband, Len, have been wintering in Florida for a couple years now and a recent doctor visit found a troubling spot on her face.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• Williamson's love of adventure led him to winter snowboarding in Vail, Colorado, and summer skydiving in Moab, Utah.
  — David Harten, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2019
• Along with being able to use your fave shade of Match Stix everywhere, Priscilla has shared how to use highlighter with your lipstick, and the surprising way that facial oils can help winter skin glow.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 5 Dec. 2018
• The sprawling wetlands near the beach served as a refuge for wintering waterfowl and as a nursery for coho, steelhead, and many other fish, amphibians and reptiles.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• In the 22 years the Texas mid-winter survey has been conducted using the same methodology, only three have seen fewer wintering ducks on the Texas landscape.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024