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wintry

[win-tree] / ˈwɪn tri /


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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

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

The government has credited wintry weather with a recent lull in the disease.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

By Sunday, heavy rain will spread south and east across the UK followed by some wintry showers and sunny spells across Scotland, Northern Ireland and later in the day northern England and Wales.

From BBC Mar. 27, 2026

Behind him the door opened and the wintry air rushed in.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

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 William Carleton

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 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 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

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




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