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Meanings of snowbank in English

A mound of snow accumulated by the wind.

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
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
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 snowbank in English
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
6
The mob had melted away like a small snowbank in a hot sun.
Oh, You Tex!
7
In a second it had grown bigger than a small snowbank, and whiter.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 / Negligible Tal...
8
Suddenly, a bed in a snowbank seemed like a fine idea.
The grail king
9
It lands you in a snowbank at the bottom, but it's perfectly safe.
The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers
10
And the back end of the car got lodged firmly into a snowbank.
Dating game
11
At first they thought it was a snowbank alongside a road.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
12
Finally we scrambled over the snowbank and onto the driveway together.
Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
13
Blake sat with his back to a snowbank, which afforded a slight shelter.
The Intriguers
14
She put Martin on the snowbank, and jumped onto the ship.
Winter’s Tale
15
The shortness of the drop combined with the snowbank was just bad luck.
End of Watch
16
She must have dropped right into the snowbank in the bottom-Ruth
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box
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