winter

Example Sentences

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Curiously, he was dressed in heavy clothes more suited to winter than a 46C summer day, with a shawl wrapped around his head.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

“There’s never been a winter like this, where we had virtually no precipitation, very little snow, very little rain. We count on that snowpack from the mountains,” he said.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

When the Bergs thought about buying a vacation house, they thought it might be in the San Juan Islands or Leavenworth, Wash., a mountain town they’d been visiting every winter.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Whether owners can get a cap — either by persuasion through the fall and winter, or more likely by canceling games next spring so players go unpaid — remains to be seen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

And so while the rest of us played tag or bowl-the-hoop or had skate races down frozen canals in winter, Betsie sat and did dull grown-up things like embroidery.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom