snowflake

Example Sentences

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The sensors also have an aerosol probe that measures particulate matter, because dust helps with snowflake formation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The arrival of only one snowflake adds to Gobo’s severe case of writer’s block.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Sylvia Foulkes, then aged 9, from Norwich, chose a collection of British coins, a container with five tree seeds, and the snowflake hologram.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025

When light enters a snowflake, the complex structure of the ice crystals scatter the light into the seven colours of the rainbow.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024

Each snowflake was unique, but they were all alike in that they were all six-cornered.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton