How to Use snowfield in a Sentence

snowfield

noun
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  • The birds coasted down the snowfield to the valley below.
    — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Just before 11am, a gust of wind dispersed the fog and the snowfields on the summit appeared.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The winged insects live along streams fed by melting glaciers and snowfields.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Video of three wolverines at the end of a snowfield then running through a meadow into a forest.
    — Hannah Seo, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2020
  • As the boys cut across the snowfield, a massive amount of increasingly unstable snow lay above them.
    — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
  • After overnighting here, hikers strap on crampons and set off up the snowfield to the summit, where the Atlas Mountains open out and the views are relentless.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 25 July 2022
  • While traversing a snowfield, though, Forrest twisted his knee.
    — Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The pigment produced by the algae then dyes the surrounding area a darker color, giving the snowfield a pink or red color.
    — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Simon Beck carefully plots his course before shuffling through a windswept snowfield high in the Rocky Mountains.
    — Thomas Peipert, The Know, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Patches of snow are frequent, with the longest snowfield about 200 feet, with snowdrifts in spots as high as 5 feet, that hikers are detouring around.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
  • The snowfield extended for miles before us through forest.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
  • Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail must cross miles of deep snowfields that should have melted a month ago, some of them scrambling for their lives in the icy water of raging mountain streams.
    — Paige St. John, latimes.com, 20 June 2017
  • The snowfield was strewn with aircraft debris: port-holes, sections of fuselage, tubing, suitcases, pieces of silk, a wheel, a jet engine.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Search and rescue volunteers discovered his body the next day in a snowfield below Capitol’s north face.
    — The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
  • But he was rarely hurt seriously, a testament perhaps to fine judgments: How to cross a snowfield that might conceal a crevasse?
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Most glaciers and snowfields in one of the species’ main locations, Glacier National Park, are expected to disappear by 2030.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Under the weight of even a single skier, an unstable snowfield can shift and send loose snow thundering down a mountainside.
    — Lou Dzierzak, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Most glaciers and snowfields in the species’ main location, Glacier National Park, are predicted to disappear by 2030.
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The wall terminates at a series of crevasses that litter a 55-degree snowfield for a few hundred feet before aproning out into a flat expanse on the glacier.
    — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
  • The species is the most common type of snow algae found in snowfields and mountains across the world, reports Jennifer Frazer at Scientific American.
    — Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The bright red photosynthetic algae -- which can thrive in very low temperatures -- are located in snowfields around the world.
    — Fox News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Today, the pass draws history and railroad buffs, as well as off-road users and skiers who flock to the perennial snowfield atop Mount Epworth, home of the storied Epworth Cup ski race, which stages its 52nd annual contest next month.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
  • The wreckage is on a snowfield in steep, mountainous terrain, according to preliminary reports, Johnson said.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2018
  • The company became known for extravagant runway shows, with troupes of hip-hop ballerinas prancing through ersatz autumn forests and models traipsing across fake snowfields.
    — Robert Williams, Bloomberg.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • On April 22, more than a million people across all seven continents took to the streets (and dirt roads and snowfields) to declare themselves, not dispassionately, for the fundamental political value of science.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The technology lets humans control avalanches without physically entering a potentially dangerous snowfield.
    — Lou Dzierzak, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2020

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