Late in the summer, as the snowbanks diminished, his body was found, lying at the base of the three-thousand-foot precipice.
This was in May, while yet the snowbanks lingered in that high country.
On the space between the snowbanks a heavy layer of the green balsam boughs were evenly spread.
They prefer snowbanks and rough ice or the cracks and cavities of grounded ice for this purpose, and pup in these holes.
The pregnant females take to the rough ice, where deep snowbanks have been formed by the winter gales, and dig large excavations, in which parturition takes place.
This is notoriously the case in the summit zone of the Cordillera Vilcapampa, where the accumulating snows of the steep cirque walls tumble down hundreds of feet to gather into prodigious snowbanks or to form névé fields or glaciers.
What seems a good test of the explanation of cirques here proposed was made in those localities in the Maritime Cordillera, where large snowbanks but not glaciers affect the form of the catchment basins.
It had been eating away at the snowbanks all night.
All day it blew, and the snowbanks disappeared as if they were beside a hot stove.
The sidewalks were filled with shoppers crowded between store windows and low snowbanks piled along the curb.
Oliver squinted at the fresh snowbanks on his way to Becky's.
A few hot suns would melt the snowbanks in the mountains to send the river thundering between its banks until the very earth trembled, and its navigation was unthinkable.
The river was rising rapidly now, not an inch at a time but inches, for the days were warmer--warm enough to start rivulets running from sheltered snowbanks in the mountains.
Likewise, the presence of a forest cover retards the melting of snow in the spring, and in this way huge snowbanks in the forests feed the nearby streams until late in the summer.
At these elevations the snowbanks usually lie until July and the growing season is very short, for the new snow usually buries the vegetation about the first of November.
In his desperation he started to cross the stream and spent several days floundering around through the snowbanks and drifts.
Miles adopted the same plan and drove Sitting Bull through the snowbanks across the boundary into the Dominion of Canada, where he was quite willing to promise to behave himself in the future if permitted to return to the land of his fathers.
On the crusty surface of snowbanks and icy ponds, they are whirled along, and finally lodge, to rot and liberate the seeds.
Wherever they grow their roots have made of the deep soil a sponge that holds the drainage of melting snowbanks and doles it out through streams that flow thence to famishing, hot, wind-swept plains and valleys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snowbanks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
