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Meanings of snow bank in English

A mound of snow accumulated by the wind.

Snow banks.

Synonyms
Examples for "snowdrift"
Examples for "snowdrift"
1
The snowdrift was very thick and the temperature fell to -20 °Fahr
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
2
The only woman in history who had a brow like a snowdrift.
Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date / Biographical Dictionary of the...
3
You can't escape a snowdrift just by racing the engine, says Ucer.
The Guardian
4
The sphere lay behind us on its dwindling snowdrift thirty feet away.
The First Men in the Moon
5
Joel feels a strong arm pulling him up out of the snowdrift.
A bridge to the stars
1
Lumley had grabbed him and shoved him right back into the snowbank.
Night Shift
2
Hodges steps down gently on the gas and rolls at the snowbank.
End of Watch
3
Close by-behindher- arumblinggrowl reverberated over the edge of the snowbank.
Genellan: planetfall
4
The latter dodged, and the swirling steel buried itself in the snowbank beyond.
The Blazed Trail
5
You'll have to bull your way through the snowbank, you know.
End of Watch
1
He gazed around, to find Whopper head first in a snow drift.
Guns and Snowshoes; Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters
2
Here a great crushing in a snow drift showed where she had fallen.
The Day of the Beast
3
The door opened and Canute stood before her, white as a snow drift.
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
4
Others, with snowshoes as shovels, soon cleared away the snow drift from the fireplace.
Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
5
He weaved through the gap in the snow drift and headed for the shore.
King rolen's kin: the uncrowned king
Usage of snow bank in English
1
Another dives into a snow bank; it affords him no protection.
The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
2
All were hidden in a snow bank-directlyunder the dormitory window.
The Rover Boys at School; Or, The Cadets of Putnam Hall
3
The roads between here and Honedale are one unbroken snow bank.
Aikenside
4
They had Holland crowded back with a snow bank behind him.
61 hours
5
Now procure a stick with which to steer and hunt a snow bank.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
6
I was pitched out of the auto into a snow bank.
The Story of a Stuffed Elephant
7
Invisible in the snow bank it lurked, marked his presence, waited to attack!
The Tarn of Eternity
8
The great weight has packed the bottom of this great snow bank to ice.
The First Book of Farming
9
Holland stepped forward and dug around in the snow bank and retrieved his weapon.
61 hours
10
That last pouring'll go out like a snow bank, Mr.
Still Jim
11
On the scale of geologic time, a cliff is as permanent as a snow bank.
Climbing Magazine
12
He had dropped his pistol in the snow bank.
61 hours
13
You can't ask a guy to dig around in a snow bank for an hour.'
61 hours
14
By good luck he fell in a snow bank and was not hurt in the least.
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches / An Account of the Big Ga...
15
When I wanted whisky, I needed it worse than a scalded pup does a snow bank.
The Blazed Trail
16
He couldn't drive nails in a snow bank.
Arizona Nights