BLIZZARD in a Sentence

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Nor would most hovering drones stand a chance in the intense storms and blizzards that helicopters sometimes have to fly into.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLIZZARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
blizzard
 n.  snowstorm; storm
Classic Sentence:
1  Fuchs told me everything I wanted to know: how he had lost his ear in a Wyoming blizzard when he was a stage-driver, and how to throw a lasso.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
2  That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outside begging for work was never greater, and the packers would not wait long for any one.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  Precious horses painfully brought from Illinois, were drowned in bogs or stampeded by the fear of blizzards.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  During blizzards everything about the railroad was melodramatic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  There came cruel, cold, and biting winds, and blizzards of snow, all testing relentlessly for failing muscles and impoverished blood.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  A blizzard is a severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow.
2  We once got stuck in a blizzard for six hours.
3  Nor would most hovering drones stand a chance in the intense storms and blizzards that helicopters sometimes have to fly into.