Snowdrift

//ˈsnəʊdɹɪft//

"Snowdrift" in a Sentence (3 examples)

The dog jumped into the snowdrift.

The car got stuck in a deep snowdrift on the side of the road.

In winter the line between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen was regularly blocked by snowdrifts; in 1947, for instance, it was closed for eight weeks and only three weeks before it was finally closed no trains were able to use it for three days because of thick snow.

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