How to Use cold snap in a Sentence

cold snap

noun
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  • Yet, a rare recent cold snap has seen residents of the kingdom’s capital throwing on extra layers and enjoying the cool winter breeze.
    — Jay Ganglani, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The buds that did emerge were, like the ones in the Northeast, killed by a cold snap in the early spring.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • This could be all right for fruit, so long as another cold snap doesn’t kill the buds.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Ditto for threats for cutting off the heat during a cold snap.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024
  • Also, your wedding will go on rain or shine, cold snap, or heat wave.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 28 Oct. 2024
  • In 2017, an intense cold snap damaged nearly half the blooms.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Keep scrolling for more comfy boots from Walmart to carry you in style through the last cold snap of winter.
    — Miles Walls, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024
  • As for the cherry trees, their buds are not yet developed enough that a cold snap would threaten them.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The extreme cold snap across our nation this week has most of us nesting indoors.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Last winter in Los Angeles, the jails also struggled to deal with the effects of a cold snap.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • This spring, a mild winter followed by a wet spring helped produce a bumper crop, but the recent cold snap could soon bring that to an end.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Last year’s mid-January cold snap allowed some ice to build.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • And a cold snap followed by melting temperatures can lead to ice jams in rivers and creeks.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Challenge yourself to leave home and do something fun during this cold snap.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
  • We’ve even been granted an October cold snap, getting us in the mood for the spookiest season of the year.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2023
  • This cold snap will be driven by the system’s northwest flow and will peak Saturday night.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • After above-normal temperatures much of the first two weeks, a mid-month cold snap plunged the region into a deep freeze.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There will be temperatures into the 60s followed by a cold snap with highs in the teens and a possible thunderstorm in the mix.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • The latest cold snap is expected to improve after the weekend.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The inconsistency of the bloom this year is more pronounced than past years and is probably because of the recent cold snap.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And, even with a nine-day cold snap, this January was the state's 10th warmest on record at 8.5 degrees above normal, on average.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • Commuters waiting at a bus station in Dalian, in northeastern China, where a cold snap has hit in recent days.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The mood has changed, said Liudmyla Radchenko, 61, a nanny pushing an infant in a stroller around a city park during a cold snap.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The entirety of the United States seems to be experiencing a cold snap — almost.
    — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The Chinese rail system handled a record volume of coal bound for power plants during a cold snap in December 2020.
    — Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Despite an unusually brutal cold snap at the Ontario base, landing in Rankin Inlet was a shock to some.
    — Norimitsu Onishi Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • Yes, if there’s a cold snap, these lovely symbols of wintertime will politely shrivel up as if waiting for a draft to pass.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Last year, the House voted on a $1.7 trillion spending bill on Dec. 23, as a brutal cold snap descended on Washington.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Christmas lights in the shapes of bells and Santa heads and holly leaves hung from streetlights, an early December cold snap that turned his breath to frostbitten mist in front of his face.
    — Jessica Leon, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Those events, combined with a weekend cold snap, could transform our damp, brown ground into a winter wonderland just in time for Santa's sleigh to land.
    — Torey Van Oot, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024

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