How to Use snowfield in a Sentence

snowfield

noun

• The birds coasted down the snowfield to the valley below.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Just before 11am, a gust of wind dispersed the fog and the snowfields on the summit appeared.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
• The winged insects live along streams fed by melting glaciers and snowfields.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
• Video of three wolverines at the end of a snowfield then running through a meadow into a forest.
  — Hannah Seo, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2020
• As the boys cut across the snowfield, a massive amount of increasingly unstable snow lay above them.
  — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• After overnighting here, hikers strap on crampons and set off up the snowfield to the summit, where the Atlas Mountains open out and the views are relentless.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 25 July 2022
• While traversing a snowfield, though, Forrest twisted his knee.
  — Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2021
• The pigment produced by the algae then dyes the surrounding area a darker color, giving the snowfield a pink or red color.
  — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2019
• Simon Beck carefully plots his course before shuffling through a windswept snowfield high in the Rocky Mountains.
  — Thomas Peipert, The Know, 16 Jan. 2020
• Patches of snow are frequent, with the longest snowfield about 200 feet, with snowdrifts in spots as high as 5 feet, that hikers are detouring around.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
• The snowfield extended for miles before us through forest.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail must cross miles of deep snowfields that should have melted a month ago, some of them scrambling for their lives in the icy water of raging mountain streams.
  — Paige St. John, latimes.com, 20 June 2017
• The snowfield was strewn with aircraft debris: port-holes, sections of fuselage, tubing, suitcases, pieces of silk, a wheel, a jet engine.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
• Search and rescue volunteers discovered his body the next day in a snowfield below Capitol’s north face.
  — The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
• But he was rarely hurt seriously, a testament perhaps to fine judgments: How to cross a snowfield that might conceal a crevasse?
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• Most glaciers and snowfields in one of the species’ main locations, Glacier National Park, are expected to disappear by 2030.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• Under the weight of even a single skier, an unstable snowfield can shift and send loose snow thundering down a mountainside.
  — Lou Dzierzak, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2020
• Most glaciers and snowfields in the species’ main location, Glacier National Park, are predicted to disappear by 2030.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
• The wall terminates at a series of crevasses that litter a 55-degree snowfield for a few hundred feet before aproning out into a flat expanse on the glacier.
  — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
• The species is the most common type of snow algae found in snowfields and mountains across the world, reports Jennifer Frazer at Scientific American.
  — Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2020
• The bright red photosynthetic algae -- which can thrive in very low temperatures -- are located in snowfields around the world.
  — Fox News, 26 Feb. 2020
• Today, the pass draws history and railroad buffs, as well as off-road users and skiers who flock to the perennial snowfield atop Mount Epworth, home of the storied Epworth Cup ski race, which stages its 52nd annual contest next month.
  — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• The wreckage is on a snowfield in steep, mountainous terrain, according to preliminary reports, Johnson said.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2018
• The company became known for extravagant runway shows, with troupes of hip-hop ballerinas prancing through ersatz autumn forests and models traipsing across fake snowfields.
  — Robert Williams, Bloomberg.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• On April 22, more than a million people across all seven continents took to the streets (and dirt roads and snowfields) to declare themselves, not dispassionately, for the fundamental political value of science.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2018
• The technology lets humans control avalanches without physically entering a potentially dangerous snowfield.
  — Lou Dzierzak, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024