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Examples of snow line in a Sentence
climbing above the snow line
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Kines said the snow line will likely fall on Pennsylvania's southern border.
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John Bacon, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
This means that objects formed beyond the snow line are relatively rich in water, and one leading theory about the origin of the water on Earth is that it was acquired by the capture of such water-rich objects.
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2025
Parts of the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range below the snow line could see 4 to 8 inches of rain through Monday night.
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Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2024
The presence of the water molecules provided new evidence that the grains indeed formed deep in space, beyond the snow line.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1835, in the meaning defined above
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“Snow line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snow%20line. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
snow line
noun
: the lower edge of an area of permanent snow (as a mountain peak)
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