How to Use blizzard in a Sentence

blizzard

noun
  • We were snowed in by a raging blizzard.
  • In the winter episode, all of the blizzard looks were iconic.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The two teams slogged through fresh snow and a minor blizzard.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Will he be blown off the stage by a blizzard of angry boos?
    Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • After the blizzard, the group dug out from the snow and moved to their next stop: Serpentine Hot Springs.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • As the resort closes and a blizzard moves in, the three are stuck on the lift, completely abandoned.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The blizzard of 1978 had started, but birders stood their ground.
    oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The heavy snowfall and wind gusts of upwards of 55 mph will lead to blizzard conditions.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
  • In the days leading up to the Houston rodeo, Spenser and Tanner were dealing with a blizzard in Iowa—a fresh foot of snow and high winds.
    Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Question: That was a real nightmare of a blizzard, wasn't it?
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The blizzard of 1873 left snowdrifts a dozen feet high on some Indiana farms.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Just a few days before Christmas in 2022, she was found in her front yard in the middle of a blizzard with a gunshot wound to her head.
    The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But that role came to an abrupt end, amid a blizzard of controversy.
    Matthew Korfhage, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Inside these blizzards, dust particles whip along at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The Weather Service in Reno has issued only eight blizzard warnings in the last 12 years.
    Megan Michelson, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Yosemite was forced to close in February after more than 15 feet of snow fell during a blizzard.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 May 2023
  • The boot campers, however, come from all over Delta’s network — even places that are known more for beaches than blizzards.
    David Koenig, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The weather took a turn for the worse in late February as an arctic air mass plunged down the West Coast, prompting a rare blizzard warning.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Much of Iowa is under a blizzard warning on Friday, and the storm could deposit up to ten inches of snow in some areas.
    TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • To most of the U.S., this kind of heat for this long is a bit abstract, even as cities more used to blizzards than heat waves have grappled with their own short stretches of 100 degrees.
    Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The bottle is decorated with a blizzard of snow on a gold foil background.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The blizzard dumped more than 8 feet of snow at Homewood Mountain Resort’s summit and nearly 6 feet at its base.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Things only get worse when a blizzard hits, the power goes out, and Grace’s traumatic past begins scratching its way to the present day.
    Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The blizzard comes weeks after the state of California faced extreme flooding and storms.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The recent blizzard has brought historic snowfall, besting records set more than five decades ago.
    Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The most alarming storm is a developing blizzard in Iowa.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Dozens of schools in South Dakota closed Tuesday due to blizzard conditions.
    CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • August fog means a snowy winter, and low beehives portend a blizzard.
    Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Paltrow’s fight to clear her name resonated with many of her fans, including those who braved blizzards to fill the gallery of the Park City courtroom for two weeks.
    Andrew Dalton and Sam Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Silicon Valley woke up to a blizzard of text messages, phone calls and Twitter posts about the bank’s mounting woes.
    Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023

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