wintry

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

Jinny Lu grew up in freezing temperatures in the wintry mountains of South Korea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Hail and thunder may mix in with some of the showers, which could be wintry over hills and mountains in Scotland.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

One wintry day in April, after making his usual three o’clock pickup at 109th and Amsterdam, the Chief turned the loaded bus east at 110th Street and cruised routinely down Fifth Avenue.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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 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

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

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

His rugged frame, accustomed to all weathers, hardened by years of sleeping beside wide-opened windows in the wintriest of seasons, was always healthily glowing with warmth when others were frankly freezing.

From Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

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