How to Use wintry in a Sentence

wintry

adjective

• She gave me a wintry welcome.
• That’s what that wintry ride home from the airport in a ’55 Chevy was all about.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
• There is a light breeze from the north around 5 to 10 mph that keeps it feeling wintry.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• Even with bad weather there are still ways to keep the body and mind active on a wintry day.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2018
• Television is about to be hit with a blast of cold, wintry chill.
  — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
• The Grand Canyon tried to round up some animals last year, but wintry weather set in.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
• Or bundle up in a parka, wooly socks, and a pair of snow boots for a wintry weekend getaway.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
• In Flagstaff, where wintry weather is to be expected, this will likely be the fourth white Christmas of the decade.
  — Justin Price, azcentral, 23 Dec. 2019
• Parts of Alabama could have to deal with a wintry mess of rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain on Friday.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• This year the risk was acute because of an early spring that caused vines to bud just as wintry weather returned.
  — Guy Collins, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2017
• The wintry scene features an ominous wolf, slightly oversize in scale, but the dead have nothing to fear.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 6 May 2017
• Without mass transit, that means students must have a car that can make the trip, often over wintry roads.
  — David Jesse, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The Monday storm is scooting away into a position that helps set up the next one that could be quite wintry.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
• The current pattern of wintry weather is set to continue until around the middle of April, but the end is in sight.
  — Jaclyn Reiss, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• His losing streak finally came to an end in 2016, with his performance in the epic wintry western The Revenant.
  — Kate Samuelson, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• Fans were not allowed in because of the wintry conditions.
  — CBS News, 18 Jan. 2018
• There will be few signs of Saturday's wintry conditions as the last week of March begins.
  — James Briggs, Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2018
• The same cold weather system that crippled the Eugene area a little more than a year ago left Portland a wintry mess as well.
  — Eugene Register-Guard, OregonLive.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• The wintry weather pattern is predicted to finally erode over the next week to 10 days.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• Yet wintry night never ends in the grim, ashen new production of the work which opened the Munich Opera Festival on Thursday.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 1 July 2018
• All of this took place on a wintry afternoon in which tempers got pretty hot, anyway.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• With coats in hand, following coffee and a mini-pastry, guests made their way back out into the wintry New York night.
  — Noor Brara, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2018
• Winter tires would be an easy fix, and could perform as well as, if not better than, all-wheel drive in wintry conditions.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• On Friday, Boston woke up to the weather equivalent of a bad hangover after a wild and wintry 24 hours.
  — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2018
• Back on our wintry July trip, Cricket and his crew convinced us to hold off a day and spend the night in the pack outfit’s distinctly non-hipster yurt.
  — David Ferry, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• Tolbert, the only African American woman in her class, was among the audience who came out to see him on that wintry night.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
• Between wintry weather, heavy traffic and crowded airports, even the best plans can fall apart.
  — Carrie Arnold, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Mother Nature may disrupt your travel plans, with at least two messy, wintry storms en route.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• Schools across North Texas are also on alert ahead of the possibility of wintry weather.
  — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2020
• Viard’s use of contrasting textiles, colors and styles brings a different perspective of shapes and hues to a very wintry collection.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024