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wintry

[win-tree] / ˈwɪn tri /


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While their extended family marked the holiday in wintry Minnesota, they sat down to Atlantic ocean views and a main course of Tofurky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

It would be a slog with a lot of bags or in wintry weather, but it was perfect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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

The cobs of the corn they had dried and eaten and they stripped the bark from trees and all over the countryside people were eating what grass they could find upon the wintry hills.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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 wintrier the time, the greener the hope.

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

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

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 Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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

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

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 Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond


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