How to Use snowbank in a Sentence

snowbank

noun

• The car slid into a snowbank.
• Davis was found shot to death in a snowbank the next day.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022
• The man drove the car across a parking lot and over a snowbank.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2020
• Gulp, the Sierra snowbank — a key source of water in the U.S. West — is short on funds.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2021
• The model is svelte enough to lift over knee-high snowbanks and best for small jobs.
  — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• One man, found dead in a snowbank, died on his 56th birthday.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2022
• The minivan had stopped against a snowbank in the emergency lane.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2020
• Trooper caught up with it on Tunxis Trail in Bolton, where the car hit a snowbank.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Finicum crashed into the side of a snowbank to avoid a police roadblock.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• The car chase ended a short time later when the Malibu hit a snowbank in the area of 857 Main St., police said.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• In a roadside snowbank on the West Side, with multiple gunshots to the head.
  — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• But when his car got stuck in a snowbank, Diaz-Romero moved toward him.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• The crowds, which a few minutes before lined the streets, melted as if a blast from a furnace had hit a snowbank.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• One driver spun out into the snowbank lining the track's outer edge, and the race paused to reset.
  — Katie Galioto, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• He was pushed into that snowbank and against the barrier.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• An officer found the vehicle off the road in a snowbank.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2022
• Iowa's safe haven law has been in place since 2002 after a teenager in Chelsea gave birth and left the newborn in a snowbank the year prior.
  — Francesca Block, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• People won’t want to climb a snowbank or take baby steps to avoid ice patches.
  — Lew Sichelman | Andrews McMeel Syndication, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• The subjects reportedly rode tandem down the half pipe and launched off a large snowbank at the bottom of the half pipe.
  — Erich Murphy, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Passersby stopped to help the driver get out of the cab, which climbed a snowbank and the guardrail and was dangling precariously off the side of the bridge.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• And a final reminder: Keep garbage and recycling carts out of streets and snowbanks.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 27 Nov. 2019
• Demetrius Robinson was found in a snowbank a day before his birthday.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• One of the children noticed a large, shiny object resting in a snowbank and approached it.
  — oregonlive, 20 July 2021
• Finicum drove away from a police stop and crashed his truck into a snowbank to avoid FBI agents and police at a roadblock.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2019
• Sheriff’s deputies arrived and one of their police dogs tracked to a vehicle about a block away that was stuck in a snowbank.
  — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• Police found the car a short time later crashed into a nearby snowbank.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2021
• Two days before Christmas, a man on a smoke break found the 55-year-old’s body frozen in a snowbank bordering a scrap of spruce forest.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2023
• Finicum then sped off, coming to a roadblock and plowing into a snowbank.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2017
• These bugs can survive below-zero temperatures and can often be found on snowbanks.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024