wintriness

Example Sentences

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There may also be a touch of wintriness over the highest hills of northern England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

It will turn colder here, perhaps even cold enough for some wintriness over the very tops of the Scottish mountains by the weekend.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

"Gradually the milder air will filter across the whole of the UK through the weekend, with any wintriness on Saturday confined to the far north of Scotland and Shetland," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2024

This is a poem spoken by Emma’s ghost, but the same emotional wintriness characterizes Hardy’s marriage to Florence.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2016

The hills that fringed the city were ragged in their wintriness, and ash-dark with the thickening dusk.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville