SNOWBALL in a Sentence

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For SNOWBALL, below is one of 9 sentences:
Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they roll along, a throng of tumultuous men.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNOWBALL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
snowball
 n.  snow pressed into a ball for throwing playfully
 v.  increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
Classic Sentence:
1  He stopped at the foot, and picked up some, and then leaned against the railing, making a snowball.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  A moment later he looked around and saw Jurgis, and their eyes met; it was a hostile glance, the boy evidently thinking that the other had suspicions of the snowball.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  There is a pile of these arrears very soon, and it swells like a rolling snowball.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
4  The scandal of the keeper continues and gets bigger like a snowball.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
5  Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they roll along, a throng of tumultuous men.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
6  They shouted and threw snowballs, and informed her that it was SUCH fun, and they'd have another skiing expedition right away, and they jollily returned home and never thereafter left their manuals of bridge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  We had a massive snowball fight.
2  If he can't afford a good lawyer, he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the case.
3  Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.