cold snap

Example Sentences

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He has already contended with two major snowstorms and a cold snap in which 19 people died from exposure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The latest numbers showing steep increases also don’t capture February’s cold snap across large parts of the country.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

As a winter cold snap grips Germany, Berliners have been slip-sliding on ice-covered footpaths, driving a heated debate on whether the capital should use environmentally damaging salt to melt away the hazard.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

“As soon as we get a cold snap, the chicories start to come out, and from the Veneto over into Friuli, you just have this, like huge variety of different radicchio species,” she says.”

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

In die end, right before dawn a kind of cold snap came down—something else new, this cold snap—and the mosquitos settled back into the damp grass and under the leaves and he could sleep.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen