Wintry

//ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ//

"Wintry" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The wintry weather lasted long into April the year before last.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.

Through the clear wintry sunshine the bells this morning rang from the gray church tower amid the leafless elms, and up the walk the villagers trooped in their best dresses and their best faces — the latter a little reddened by the sharp wind: mere redness in the middle aged; in the maids, wonderful bloom to the eyes of their lovers — and took their places decently in the ancient pews.

The fleet was on mid ocean; land no more / was visible, naught else above, before / but sky and sea, when overhead did loom / a storm-cloud, black as heaven itself, that bore / dark night and wintry tempest in its womb, / and all the waves grew rough and shuddered with the gloom.

Meanwhile the sun rolls round the mighty year, / and wintry North-winds vex the waves once more.

It's cold and wintry.

Addressing those gathered at the Vatican on this rainy, wintry day and the millions watching him live on television, Francis said the need for patient dialogue at this time of pandemic is even more necessary in the world.

The snowflakes danced gracefully in the wintry air.

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A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.

In one village in Bachu County, more than 1,000 buildings and houses collapsed, according to the state-run New China News Agency. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.

It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.

a wintry remark

He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.

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