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wintry

[win-tree] / ˈwɪn tri /


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Picture a black-and-white shot of a wintry mansion where a Minion lies dying in an upstairs bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Several of those inside the crowded boat were not wearing life jackets despite the wintry conditions.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

He’s just taken a morning stroll in New York with his girlfriend, Dominican architect Ana Amelia Batlle Cabral, and is still defrosting from the wintry chill; he’ll be fully warmed up upon landing in California.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2026

The government has credited wintry weather with a recent lull in the disease.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

Behind him the door opened and the wintry air rushed in.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

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 Carleton, William

And perhaps on one or two of life's wintrier nights some sort of spiritual comforter thrown over all.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

The wintrier the time, the greener the hope.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

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 Gosse, Edmund

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

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 MacDonald, George

And the recollections of God’s goodness always make summer even in the wintriest day.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

His rugged frame, accustomed to all weathers, hardened by years of sleeping beside wide-opened windows in the wintriest of seasons, was always healthily glowing with warmth when others were frankly freezing.

From Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)




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