wintry
IPA: wˈɪntri
adjective
- Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
- (of precipitation) Containing sleet or snow.
- Aged, white-haired.
- Chilling, cheerless.
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Examples of "wintry" in Sentences
- Coldness of spirit hinders praying; prayer cannot live in wintry atmosphere.
- And now it is cold and wintry, which is really really nice, although I am feeling a bit sick.
- Moorman, a college track star, has done the same for the Buffalo Bills, though typically in wintry conditions.
- As someone who has to grade weak students 'papers (in wintry Pittsburgh, alas, rather than sunny LA) I know and sympathize with the temptation.
- Local authorities yesterday rejected criticisms that they have not done enough to make icy roads passable, calling the wintry conditions gripping
- I recall wintry days when I stayed in bed to keep warm, for I never could indulge in the luxury of fire, and with a pillow on my stomach I did my harmony lessons.
- But with division rival Tampa Bay coming to Charlotte next Monday night, Smith wasn't gloating about the Panthers 'stunning 35-31 victory in wintry conditions at Lambeau Field.
- The wind was sweeping by in wintry gusts; and Fleda cried herself to sleep, thinking how it would whistle round the dear old house when their ears would not be there to hear it.
- One of the most charming moments in the show comes from Mary Jane Herber, local historian and genealogist at the Brown County Library, recalling the wintry day in 1975 when Tank Cottage was moved on a Fox River barge from Green Bay to Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Allouez.
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