How to Use snowmelt in a Sentence

snowmelt

noun

• The water is still clear snowmelt, the air sweet smelling and crystalline.
  — Agatha French, Orange County Register, 21 Aug. 2019
• The two inches of rain in some places was added on top of six inches of snowmelt.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
• And avoid stream crossings when creeks are swollen with spring snowmelt.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2021
• At the snow dump site, a camper had covered its paths with gravel left from the snowmelt.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• But the rain never came, and the snowmelt did not deliver.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• About 75 percent of the water used in the Western US comes from snowmelt.
  — Sarah Sax, Wired, 18 Dec. 2021
• In spring the trail tends to close due to the rising water levels caused by snowmelt.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Deep winter snow and delayed snowmelt led to the high creeks, Van Peursem said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
• Sheets of ice clung to the shore and fresh snowmelt was cutting a path through glacier-like chunks in the middle of the river.
  — Annette McGivney, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2022
• This will allow for the soil to absorb more snowmelt once the thaw occurs.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• The size of the lake depends on how fast the snowmelt races down and how much can be channeled somewhere else.
  — Shawn Hubler Mark Abramson, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• In April, before the snowmelt, the lake remained about 12 feet below that mark.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Some opt to break from their hike and wait out the snowmelt elsewhere, then return at their leisure.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• During the spring and summer, the rivers in the area are fed by snowmelt and can run extremely fast.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 June 2022
• In the 2021 runoff season, thirsty soils sopped up much of the snowmelt, meaning less runoff made it to reservoirs.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022
• The prolonged rain in the Great Lakes region last spring followed heavy snowmelt.
  — Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2019
• How calving went, due to the late snowmelt is yet to be determined.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
• In their native habitat, the frogs flock to streams gushing with spring snowmelt.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
• What’s more, the surrounding city of Valdez is the snowiest in the U.S., which translates to tons of spring waterfalls from all the snowmelt.
  — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
• Dust speeds up melting and reduces the amount of water gained by snowmelt each year.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2021
• The flow of water from the snowmelt can ultimately cause the slab to slide downhill.
  — Abhinanda Bhattacharyya, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• In Pakistan, snowmelt caused a glacial lake to flood and wipe out an important bridge.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• The ideal time to visit is during the summer months, when peak snowmelt takes place.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 18 June 2018
• And the state has plenty of cold water due to ongoing snowmelt.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2023
• Could doing do cause problems with snowmelt on the roof, which is nearly flat?
  — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• In the past, the snowmelt and rains sometimes swelled the region’s rivers, prompting Turkey and Iran to share more water with Iraq.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• Two job sites are still dealing with running water from the snowmelt, Tiffany said.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• The melting ice has joined the snowmelt in exacerbating the runoff.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2021
• The fire burned across eight watersheds — land that moves rainfall and snowmelt downhill to replenish creeks, streams, rivers and reservoirs.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
• The heavier rain was expected to remain in the mountains north of Boise, where a flood watch was issued as the rain combined with snowmelt to threaten low-lying and flood-prone areas.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024