Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
snowy
IPA transcription: [sn'oʊi]
Pronunciations of snowy
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
snow-white, snowy
Meaning:
of the white color of snow
Synonyms:
snow-clad, snow-covered, snowy
Meaning:
covered with snow; "snow-clad hills"; "snow-covered roads"; "a long snowy winter"
Synonyms:
white, snowy
Meaning:
marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
Usage examples
Like some new-gathered snowy hyacinth, so white and cold and delicate it was
The eye could hardly tell where the snowy ridges ended and the foaming waves began.
As soon as he was gone, the boys came out from behind the cedars, and crept up the snowy hillside.
The weather was now clear, opening views according to my own heart far into the high snowy fountains.
Just upon the edge appeared the snowy peak of Saris, standing out sharp and clear against endless space.
At Roxbury, there were Ruth's ponies to drive, and in snowy weather a chance to coast down a quiet side street.
They flashed on the white, still face, and the gleams seemed to be swallowed up in that red blotch in the snowy hair.
And on the evening of the 15th of August there pierced through the clouds the snowy, shining, serrated peaks of the Rockies.
'Are you composed enough,' said I, 'to speak on the subject which so interested you--I hope Heaven may remember it!--that snowy night?'
Its snowy summit, by an optical illusion not unfrequent in mountains, seemed close to us, and yet how many weary hours it took to reach it!
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The Adventures of Tintin
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