wintry
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Atmosphere is integral to the film’s success, fashioning the quiet landscape of wintry Upper East Side Manhattan into an ambience far warmer than the biting New York cold.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
"We can still have very summery weather well into meteorological autumn, or wintry conditions during spring. The calendar simply gives meteorologists a consistent framework for recording and comparing our climate."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Jinny Lu grew up in freezing temperatures in the wintry mountains of South Korea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
With the colder air in place those showers could be a little wintry with snow over the high ground of Scotland, which is not unusual at this time of year.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
I walked back inside the performance space as Mrs. Atanabi finished unwrapping herself from all her wintry layers.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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But for all its sunshine and sad, brave wisdom, “Alcarràs” was, for me, outmatched by a much wintrier competition title.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
The wild wind of the Winter’s Tale at its opening would seem to blow us back into a wintrier world indeed.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
As is usual, all the inside men-servants slept, wintrier and summer, in the barn; and that accounts for our good fortune this night.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
The wintrier the time, the greener the hope.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
By the time we reached Wiesen, all the forests were laden with snow, the roads deep in snow-drifts, the whole scene wintrier than it had been the winter through.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Wallace Stevens is the wintriest character in American poetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The set was the wintriest I can ever recall seeing, piled with drifts of artificial snow.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
But, there! he's gone! and I gaze on The wintriest of weather!
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye
In every forehead now I see a sky Catching the dawn; I hear the wintriest breeze About me blow the news the Lord is nigh.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
And the recollections of God’s goodness always make summer even in the wintriest day.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
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