Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wintry
IPA transcription: [w'ɪntɹi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wintry, wintery
    Meaning: characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses"
Usage examples
  • Her parents were safely over their voyage on the wintry ocean, so a part of her worry of mind was lifted.
  • I thought of how far it was to Chicago, and then to Virginia, to Baltimore,--and then the great wintry ocean.
  • It was very gloomy in that cemetery, under an overcast sky, whence fell a semi-darkness already wintry in aspect.
  • Their shining breast was whiter than a swan's, and their plump sides gleamed and sparkled like ice under a wintry moon.
  • One by one the lights went out in every home in the valley, and only the stars were left shining, in the cold wintry sky.
  • Although it was not yet five o'clock, the wintry light was fading in the grey sky, and in the railway station it was already dark.
  • For a brief space, she thought, she had been like a torpid fly brought back to gay buzzing by the lighting of a fire in a wintry room.
  • And, so saying, she gayly galloped along, singing as she went, following the narrow path up hill and down dale through the wintry woods.
  • It was a wintry one. The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts.
  • Every morning, when the wintry sun peered like a hard yellow eye across the dry corn-stubble, Jimmy felt sad, but at Christmas time his heart nearly broke.