WINTRY in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for WINTRY, such as:

1. The wintry sun was already low in the sky.
2. A pale wintry sun shone through the clouds.
3. Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season.
4. It looks like this wintry weather is here to stay.
5. And, touching her hat a la Laurie, away went Jo, feeling like a shorn sheep on a wintry day.

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 Meanings and Examples of WINTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wintry
 a.  devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
 a.  characteristic of or occurring in winter
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  She saw too that the old aloof face of Ashley, the one she knew so well, had come back and it was wintry too, and harsh with hurt and remorse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  The whole darkening room depressed her and, going to the window, she raised the sash, unlatched the shutters and let the last light of the wintry sunset into the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  "Yes," and he smiled again, the smile more wintry than before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  It sleeted the next day, but as the wintry twilight drew on the icy particles stopped falling and a cold wind blew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
7  Why--why--it had been Ashley in the wintry, windswept orchard at Tara, talking of life and shadow shows with a tired calmness that had more finality in its timbre than any desperate bitterness could have revealed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
8  It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
9  He took the bag from his belt and showed us three rabbits he had shot, looked at Antonia with a wintry flicker of a smile and began to tell her something.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
10  And, touching her hat a la Laurie, away went Jo, feeling like a shorn sheep on a wintry day.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
11  The first of December was a wintry day indeed to them, for a bitter wind blew, snow fell fast, and the year seemed getting ready for its death.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
12  When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  When all was finished, I thought Moor House as complete a model of bright modest snugness within, as it was, at this season, a specimen of wintry waste and desert dreariness without.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  At that she smiled a ravishing girl's smile, as if the wind had warmed the wintry blue in her eyes to amber.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence:
1  The wintry sun was already low in the sky.
2  It looks like this wintry weather is here to stay.
3  A pale wintry sun shone through the clouds.