What's the difference between snowing and snowy?

Snowing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (2) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
  • (3) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (4) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
  • (5) The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
  • (6) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (7) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
  • (8) The only people we saw was a small party on snow shoes.
  • (9) As the level of disruption across the country continued to escalate, the government ordered an urgent audit of the country's snow readiness .
  • (10) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
  • (11) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
  • (12) As Florian Grimm, the local head of snow management, told a colleague recently: “Today nobody would accept stones any more, or spots of grass in spring.
  • (13) It was minus five degrees and snowing on the day we fitted him.
  • (14) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest View over the snow fields and lake.
  • (16) He added the rainfall could turn to snow in parts of Scotland.
  • (17) The original 1858 edition of John Snow's On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics, from which came the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology reprints in 1971 and 1989, was donated to the Wood Library-Museum by Ralph Waters of Madison, Wisconsin, in 1967.
  • (18) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
  • (19) The early appearance of the stable snow cover facilitates a rapid drop in the number of NFRS cases as early as in October, while prolonged autumn with rains, snow, periods of thaw and ice-covered ground leads to a rise in NFRS morbidity occurring in autumn and winter and ending only in March.
  • (20) There's even a little used term for it – rasputitsa – a biannual phenomenon that appears in spring because of melting snow and in the autumn because of rain.

Snowy


Definition:

  • (a.) White like snow.
  • (a.) Abounding with snow; covered with snow.
  • (a.) Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She concluded her speech with a message for the audience - perhaps all of us - perhaps some of us - perhaps one person in particular, a snowy haired gent from Queensland.
  • (2) Some turned it into a game, jumping off roofs and out of windows into snowy piles – causing the mayor, Marty Walsh, to tell them to “stop this nonsense”.
  • (3) May has, so far, been exceptionally snowy in this region with more than a metre (about 41in) of accumulation reported.
  • (4) Colbeck said the listed area will still retain “high value tall forests and giant trees in the Weld-Snowy Range, Huon Picton, the Great Western Tiers and the Styx-Tyenna regions".
  • (5) Visceral lymphomatosis was observed in a snowy owl.
  • (6) Of the accidents involving women aged over 50 years, 61% occurred in icy or snowy conditions.
  • (7) In horrible, snowy weather, these owners pick up the steaming piles of poop from city streets so that passers by don’t kick frozen poopsicles.
  • (8) This week, the Serbian authorities made additional temporary space available to get people off the snowy streets and into shelters.
  • (9) Dry tree holes, where C. hinmani, C. elemae, C. paraensis, C. nanus, C. snowi and C. footei occurred, had pH values ranging from 8.13 to 9.08.
  • (10) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (11) Marked differences in levles of viremia were not observed among Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Egrets, or Snowy Egrets.
  • (12) A large man with a rumpled shirt, snowy beard and hair pulled into a ponytail, the commissioner resembles a hippy Santa Claus but is a tough, shrewd operator.
  • (13) Death that is associated with skiing in the Snowy Mountains is a rare event.
  • (14) One protester among the crowd standing on a snowy bank opposite the court was Vladimir Yurovsky, 54, the manager of a small Moscow-based financial services company.
  • (15) Wrap up warm and channel your inner Jules Verne as you soar at bird-of-prey height above the craggy peaks, snowy meadows and white forests around Alta Pusteria.
  • (16) To the right, two prosecutors in blue uniforms sit at a desk in front of four windows looking on to a brick building with a snowy parapet and a tree petrified in ice.
  • (17) After all, humans didn’t have the natural protection his snowy “fur” provided.
  • (18) Brain ChE activity of nestling snowy egrets (Egretta thula) and black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) collected in one colony each from Rhode Island, Texas and California (USA) also increased significantly with age and did not differ among individuals from different nests or colonies.
  • (19) In the recent snowy weather people at risk got phone calls to check they were safe, if they wanted some shopping done, or perhaps a friendly face at the door making sure they were OK. A community support worker will soon be based in A&E to bring the same level of knowledge of local services and be able to help someone to go home, avoiding unnecessary admissions to hospital.
  • (20) A motley battalion is trooping the colours in the snowy yard at the Cossack military school near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow.

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