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Examples
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The snow-ball effect is going beyond all expectations.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: The Egyptian Apostate 2009
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I wait for more, for a paper snow-ball attack brought on by—what?
Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010
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I wait for more, for a paper snow-ball attack brought on by—what?
Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010
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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.
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On the streets of Kabul, while the snow continued to fall, men engaged in snow-ball fights.
Snow Days in Kabul 2007
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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"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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