snowflake

Example Sentences

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The sensors also have an aerosol probe that measures particulate matter, because dust helps with snowflake formation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The arrival of only one snowflake adds to Gobo’s severe case of writer’s block.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

These colours are reflected so many times within a snowflake that they combine to make white light, and this is what is reflected back to our eyes.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024

The authors found that the expression of the chaperone protein Hsp90, which helps other proteins acquire their functional shape, was gradually turned down as snowflake yeast evolved larger, tougher bodies.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2024

As Jonas watched, a snowflake drifted down and was caught briefly for a moment’s sparkle in the tiny fluttering eyelashes.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry