wintry

Picture a black-and-white shot of a wintry mansion where a Minion lies dying in an upstairs bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

With the colder air in place those showers could be a little wintry with snow over the high ground of Scotland, which is not unusual at this time of year.

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

He’s just taken a morning stroll in New York with his girlfriend, Dominican architect Ana Amelia Batlle Cabral, and is still defrosting from the wintry chill; he’ll be fully warmed up upon landing in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

Days lengthen and the Sun gets stronger, but when cold air moves in from the north, we can be quickly plunged back into wintry weather.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

Turner went in, slowly, warily, feeling about as eager to go in as black molasses to flow on a wintry day.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

But for all its sunshine and sad, brave wisdom, “Alcarràs” was, for me, outmatched by a much wintrier competition title.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

As is usual, all the inside men-servants slept, wintrier and summer, in the barn; and that accounts for our good fortune this night.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

By the time we reached Wiesen, all the forests were laden with snow, the roads deep in snow-drifts, the whole scene wintrier than it had been the winter through.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

The wild wind of the Winter’s Tale at its opening would seem to blow us back into a wintrier world indeed. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

And perhaps on one or two of life's wintrier nights some sort of spiritual comforter thrown over all.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Wallace Stevens is the wintriest character in American poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The set was the wintriest I can ever recall seeing, piled with drifts of artificial snow.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2016

In the wintriest circumstances of a prophet’s life God is wide awake: “He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

His rugged frame, accustomed to all weathers, hardened by years of sleeping beside wide-opened windows in the wintriest of seasons, was always healthily glowing with warmth when others were frankly freezing.

From Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

And the recollections of God’s goodness always make summer even in the wintriest day.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry