How to Use snowmelt in a Sentence

snowmelt

noun

• The farmer corralled the snowmelt and erased the valley, its desert and marsh.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2018
• In addition to the rain, the heat will cause snowmelt across the area.
  — Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2018
• The water is still clear snowmelt, the air sweet smelling and crystalline.
  — Agatha French, Orange County Register, 21 Aug. 2019
• Rare snowmelt from the Granite Range, also north of the playa, added to the flooding.
  — Jenny Kane, USA TODAY, 16 June 2017
• 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
• Each of the abodes will measure up to 5,000 square feet in size and feature a two-car garage and snowmelt driveway.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2024
• And all the snowmelt going on is causing rivers to run high — as high as twice the normal for this time of year!
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 June 2017
• 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
• Northwest rivers are running high and cold with spring snowmelt.
  — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
• 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
• Rainstorms and snowmelt in the spring can make the water fresher or, as locals sometimes say, sweeter; droughts and hot spells in the summer can make the water saltier.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
• In addition to snowmelt, Moir said, the Highlands are experiencing more frequent storms and floods, interspersed with longer periods of dry weather that increase the risk of wildfires.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025