cold snap
Example Sentences
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Arctic air is set to sweep across the UK this week, with a cold snap forecast to replace the spring warmth many have felt in recent days.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced over the weekend the opening of a new shelter in an effort to get more homeless people off the streets during the cold snap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
New York has counted 13 hypothermia-related deaths as the city faces an exceptional cold snap that swept large parts of the United States in late January, its mayor said Monday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
“As soon as we get a cold snap, the chicories start to come out, and from the Veneto over into Friuli, you just have this, like huge variety of different radicchio species,” she says.”
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
The inside of this bus is humid, and the windows are foggy, so I open mine about an inch, relishing the cold snap of fresh air.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
