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wintry

[win-tree] / ˈwɪn tri /


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Atmosphere is integral to the film’s success, fashioning the quiet landscape of wintry Upper East Side Manhattan into an ambience far warmer than the biting New York cold.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

"We can still have very summery weather well into meteorological autumn, or wintry conditions during spring. The calendar simply gives meteorologists a consistent framework for recording and comparing our climate."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Jones manages his superb cast with aplomb and cinematographer Wyatt Garfield evocatively captures lower Manhattan’s wintry, burnished glow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Birmingham had its worst May snowstorm for 60 years in 1955, and wintry weather returned to the city on 2 May 1979 with snow blanketing many areas for the bank holiday.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

A shaft of pale, wintry sunlight dazzled the mirror and the glasses on the bureau and the metal doorknobs.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

The wintrier the time, the greener the hope.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag

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 Edmund Gosse

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 Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

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 every forehead now I see a sky   Catching the dawn; I hear the wintriest breeze   About me blow the news the Lord is nigh.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

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

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

But, there! he's gone! and I gaze on The wintriest of weather!

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye




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