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  • adjective Swept by snow; snowy.

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snow +‎ swept

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Examples

  • Maurizio Degl'innocenti/European Pressphoto Agency THE COLOR OF LOVE: An umbrella provided cover for a tourist couple and a splash of color in snowswept Florence, Italy, Friday, as unusually cold and snowy weather continued across the region.

    Photos of the Day: Dec. 17 2010

  • A land of steep gorges and winding valleys, the hills did not achieve the height of true mountains, but their cha - otic nature made the trail as rugged as any snowswept al - pine ridge.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • Alucius glanced back over his shoulder, looking westward in the twilight along a snowswept road that was visible only because of the three-yard-tall black poles on each side, each pole a hundred yards from the next.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

  • Lucy bleakly surveyed the snowswept vista, wishing for the bitterness to pronounce it ugly.

    Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994

  • A land of steep gorges and winding valleys, the hills did not achieve the height of true mountains, but their cha - otic nature made the trail as rugged as any snowswept al - pine ridge.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • Across the snowswept plains she could see the flat red buildings downtown.

    Denver John Dunning 1980

  • She was suddenly face to face with the fact that the night stretched before her, -- and she in a snowswept cabin in the full power of a strange man.

    The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930

  • When last we checked Viva Voce were recording their next record in the snowswept environs of Portland.

    mp3hugger 2009

  • As for the subbuteo tournaments, well, it brought back memories of rain and snowswept afternoons when inclement weather prevented the usual kickabout.

    A Cultured Left Foot 2008

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