snowballing

Example Sentences

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Snowballing legal costs and mass resignations led Napster to file for bankruptcy in June 2002.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Snowballing harassment allegations against powerful men continued this week, especially in the media, and showed no signs of slowing.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2017

Snowballing drums and flailing guitar propel such lines as “it got me all fired up,” which leads inevitably to a round of “whoa-ohs.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2017

Snowballing close around the schoolhouse and on the well-trodden path between school and outhouses is forbidden.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snowballing was, particularly, a favorite amusement with our friends of the Twenty-first New Jersey, who never let an opportunity pass for indulging in their favorite sport.

From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.