Examples of snowbank in a Sentence
The car slid into a snowbank.
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Her body was later found between a large electrical box, a garbage bin of road salt and a snowbank.
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Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2024
The 15-year-old South Lake Tahoe girl had been riding with her parents at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when their Jeep Wrangler slid on an icy street and got stuck in a snowbank near Apache Avenue and Mohican Drive.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
Officials with the private ambulance company, Curtis Ambulance, would later blame snowbanks, an electrical box and the darkness at dusk for the ambulance crew not seeing Waldref.
Morris, who saw Waldref from the road only minutes later, was not buying it.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
The driver crashed into a snowbank trying to avoid the boys, who were pinned beneath the pickup truck, troopers said.
—Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
Last month, a video of a Russian influencer tossing his 2-month-old baby in a snowbank in an apparent stunt received thousands of comments, the majority of them negative, and led to a criminal investigation.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
Follow the professional instructor’s directions (re-read that line), and even the most erroneous application of throttle, brake, or steering will result in nothing more than a gentle kiss into a powdery snowbank.
—Michael Harley, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Investigators at the crime scene after Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer's body was discovered on the side of a snowbank on Hoosier Pass, about 10 miles outside of Breckenridge, where she was last seen.
—CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
The outdoor shots are amazing, too, from Kata’s routine of swimming laps outside in a pool surrounded by snow to aerial scenes of lonely country highways that cut through snowbanks like gray snakes.
—Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2024
The 15-year-old South Lake Tahoe girl had been riding with her parents at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when their Jeep Wrangler slid on an icy street and got stuck in a snowbank near Apache Avenue and Mohican Drive.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
Officials with the private ambulance company, Curtis Ambulance, would later blame snowbanks, an electrical box and the darkness at dusk for the ambulance crew not seeing Waldref.
Morris, who saw Waldref from the road only minutes later, was not buying it.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
The driver crashed into a snowbank trying to avoid the boys, who were pinned beneath the pickup truck, troopers said.
—Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
Last month, a video of a Russian influencer tossing his 2-month-old baby in a snowbank in an apparent stunt received thousands of comments, the majority of them negative, and led to a criminal investigation.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
Follow the professional instructor’s directions (re-read that line), and even the most erroneous application of throttle, brake, or steering will result in nothing more than a gentle kiss into a powdery snowbank.
—Michael Harley, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Investigators at the crime scene after Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer's body was discovered on the side of a snowbank on Hoosier Pass, about 10 miles outside of Breckenridge, where she was last seen.
—CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
The outdoor shots are amazing, too, from Kata’s routine of swimming laps outside in a pool surrounded by snow to aerial scenes of lonely country highways that cut through snowbanks like gray snakes.
—Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
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First Known Use
1779, in the meaning defined above
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“Snowbank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowbank. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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snowbank
noun
snow·bank
ˈsnō-ˌbaŋk 
: a mound or slope of snow
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