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Examples

  • The snow-ball effect is going beyond all expectations.

    Global Voices in English » Egypt: The Egyptian Apostate 2009

  • I wait for more, for a paper snow-ball attack brought on by—what?

    Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010

  • I wait for more, for a paper snow-ball attack brought on by—what?

    Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010

  • Social Entrepreneurship and Changemaker (as Bill Drayton's Ashoka calls them) programs around the world have helped create a snow-ball effect which is being seen on campuses, in competitions for business ideas even at the elementary school level.

    Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Intelligent Giving 2008

  • On the streets of Kabul, while the snow continued to fall, men engaged in snow-ball fights.

    Snow Days in Kabul 2007

  • They pursue their cross-gender drives in snow-ball fashion to the point of sex reassignment with a motivation and determination that is hard to explain as other than a biological imperative.

    Left, Right, Male and Female Brains Zoe Brain 2006

  • They pursue their cross-gender drives in snow-ball fashion to the point of sex reassignment with a motivation and determination that is hard to explain as other than a biological imperative.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Zoe Brain 2006

  • The beetles with their gigantic balls look like Atlas with the world on his back; only they go backward, and, with their heads down, push with the hind legs, as if a boy should roll a snow-ball with his legs while standing on his head.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • He lingered in the walkway to watch a shower of white blossoms shaken from a snow-ball bush by a fluttering robin.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • "Ted and Evelyn Smiley and Allee and me and some others had a snow-ball battle."

    The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

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