(n.) A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
(2) The weather conditions could possibly have been described as merely heavy snow in the first half but by the second half it was a full-on blizzard.
(3) Much of the UK faces several days of battering winds and localised blizzards as a pair of particularly severe weather systems pass over the country.
(4) There is a wide range of intellectual abilities of persons with Johanson-Blizzard syndrome.
(5) The total number of deaths was significantly higher (8%) in a "blizzard week" than in the preceding and subsequent (control) weeks (114.1 vs. 105.3 deaths per day).
(6) Death certificates in eastern Massachusetts after six blizzards in 1974--78, including the record blizzard of Feb. 6, 1978, were examined to identify the effect on mortality of these storms.
(7) Hirsi Ali, for instance, was treated to a series of encomiums and softball questions in her blizzard of US media interviews, from the New York Times to Fox News.
(8) During blizzards, I-80 sometimes closes altogether.
(9) Heavy snowfall in areas above 200 metres could lead to blizzard conditions across higher ground.
(10) In the literature, a wide range of intellectual abilities of children with the Johanson-Blizzard syndrome is reported.
(11) Thierry Marchand flew to New York for the Blizzard on a wing and a prayer hoping to secure an interview with Thierry Henry before his retirement.
(12) The National Weather Service said blizzard conditions were possible in eastern Massachusetts while much of the east coast will experience temperatures 10 to 25F below average (6-14C), along with “bitter wind chills”.
(13) This is an edited and updated version of a piece from the latest issue of The Blizzard .
(14) Jürgen Klinsmann's USA clinched three vital World Cup qualifying points against a spirited Costa Rica and a blizzard.
(15) So far more than 34,400 members have joined and we've collected a blizzard of pink underpants.
(16) The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for Cape Cod, coastal areas north and south of Boston and part of Maine as well as New York's Long Island, where up to 10 inches (0.25m) of snow could fall and winds could gust to 45mph.
(17) A blizzard of media interviews will then begin, before a 3pm meeting with senior management of the party.
(18) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(19) ), which rose significantly by 22% in the blizzard week from 36.7 to 44.6 deaths per day, accounted for 90% of the excess total deaths.
(20) Late Thursday, Dante de Blasio, 16 , wrote in a message that escaped his private Facebook page that he was getting a blizzard of school cancellation requests.
Drizzle
Definition:
(v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
(v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
(n.) Fine rain or mist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(2) "A syrupy drizzle of prettiness covers this cloying movie," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw .
(3) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
(4) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(5) Today, a fully restored, boldly extended and slightly reworked St Pancras proves that we can have our boiled beef and our oil-drizzled fettuccine and eat it.
(6) Add spices, stud the dough with candied peel, chocolate chips, nuts or dried fruit, layer or plait it, roll it up or just drizzle it with water icing.
(7) 5 Season to taste again and drizzle the top with olive oil to serve.
(8) 400g black-eyed beans soaked overnight in cold water 30g unsalted butter 75ml olive oil, plus extra to drizzle 2 small pittas, torn into 4cm pieces 80g almonds, skin on, roughly chopped 1 tbsp za’atar, plus 1 tsp extra to serve ¼ tsp chilli flakes Salt and black pepper 50ml lemon juice ¾ tsp ground cumin 400g Greek yoghurt 3 tbsp tahini paste 1 small garlic clove, peeled and crushed 10g parsley, roughly chopped 1 lemon, cut into 6 wedges, to serve Drain the beans and put them in a medium saucepan filled with plenty of cold water.
(9) The evening sunshine is giving way to drizzle and a chilly wind.
(10) 7 Serve the leeks on top of a scoop of beans, sprinkled with hazelnuts and drizzled with olive oil, with crusty bread.
(11) Instead, for now, he is sitting in a farmhouse in the village of Brodersby in Schleswig-Holstein, looking out through a drizzle over the flat plains of northern Germany , his adopted home.
(12) Drizzle the tomatoes with two teaspoons of oil, a pinch of salt and some pepper, then griddle for two to three minutes, turning them every minute, until they have black char marks all over and the skin is splitting.
(13) And yet, as was clear talking to the ministers, current and former, seeking shelter from the Westminster drizzle in the media encampment of satellite trucks and makeshift tents on College Green, those who want Brown gone look weak too.
(14) The event starts at 5pm and my cab had me and my companion – LA actor and comic Sarah Coomes – there at about 3.15pm, in broad daylight and thin drizzle.
(15) It was forecast to dump icy drizzle and eventually freezing rain through the New York City area and into Boston, National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Heavener said.
(16) Instead of inching my way along a busy B-road in the drizzle, wearing a hard hat and a hi-vis jacket, I was on a black-and-white pony in the wild west, riding alongside men with names like Cody who talked kinda slow and carried lariats on their saddles.
(17) That's the end of the good news: cloud, light rain and patchy drizzle could affect most areas by evening.
(18) If I succeed in my attempt at a lemon drizzle cake this weekend, I’ll have Nancy to thank.
(19) Welcome to sunny England!” he said in the drizzle.
(20) The Malibu theme is at odds with the drizzle outside, but it at least makes sense for the station's listeners, thousands of whom are US Air Force personnel at nearby RAF Mildenhall.