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snow in

Verb

Meaning

snow in (third-person singular simple present snows in, present participle snowing in, simple past and past participle snowed in)

(transitive, usually passive) To prevent from moving (from a building, in a city, etc) by a large snowfall.

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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. Andy Goldsworthy

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. Bing Crosby

Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages. Robert Browning

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. Donna Tartt

Had I robbed, plundered, ravished and murdered everything I met my character could not be painted blacker than it as present, thank God my conscience is as clear as the snow in Peru. Ned Kelly

May problems with neighbors last only as long as snow in March. Corsican Proverb

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