How to Use cold snap in a Sentence

cold snap

noun
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  • This could be all right for fruit, so long as another cold snap doesn’t kill the buds.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In 2017, an intense cold snap damaged nearly half the blooms.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • As for the cherry trees, their buds are not yet developed enough that a cold snap would threaten them.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The extreme cold snap across our nation this week has most of us nesting indoors.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Last winter in Los Angeles, the jails also struggled to deal with the effects of a cold snap.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • This spring, a mild winter followed by a wet spring helped produce a bumper crop, but the recent cold snap could soon bring that to an end.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • We’ve even been granted an October cold snap, getting us in the mood for the spookiest season of the year.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2023
  • This cold snap will be driven by the system’s northwest flow and will peak Saturday night.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • After above-normal temperatures much of the first two weeks, a mid-month cold snap plunged the region into a deep freeze.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The inconsistency of the bloom this year is more pronounced than past years and is probably because of the recent cold snap.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Commuters waiting at a bus station in Dalian, in northeastern China, where a cold snap has hit in recent days.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The mood has changed, said Liudmyla Radchenko, 61, a nanny pushing an infant in a stroller around a city park during a cold snap.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The entirety of the United States seems to be experiencing a cold snap — almost.
    — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Despite an unusually brutal cold snap at the Ontario base, landing in Rankin Inlet was a shock to some.
    — Norimitsu Onishi Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • Last year, the House voted on a $1.7 trillion spending bill on Dec. 23, as a brutal cold snap descended on Washington.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Christmas lights in the shapes of bells and Santa heads and holly leaves hung from streetlights, an early December cold snap that turned his breath to frostbitten mist in front of his face.
    — Jessica Leon, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Six months ago, a cold snap across Europe would likely have sparked disturbance in the region's energy markets.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Since the cherry blossom trees aren’t relied on to produce fruit, the impact on them should be minimal and won’t harm the flowers — provided that there isn’t a sudden cold snap.
    — Ashraf Khalil, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The quake also knocked out water, electricity and transportation links in some parts of Gansu, which, like much of the country, is enduring a cold snap.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Late in the summer, a cold snap combined with weeks of torrential rain destroyed 100 pounds of their nearly ripe tomatoes after months of painstaking work tending them.
    — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • The first winter weather advisory was issued on Dec. 31 and then in January during a 9-day cold snap.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Variety heard from several of them, who cited filming amid a cold snap in Britain as one of the factors that led to medical attention on site.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
  • Mistaking a cold snap for disproof of climate change is like mistaking a bad month for Apple stock for proof that Apple isn’t a good long-term investment.
    — Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
  • But when peak bloom occurs varies by year, and is dependent on the weather — a few warm days could cause the blooms to come early in March, while a cold snap could keep them from opening up and painting D.C. pink until later in April.
    — Brittany Anas, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The temperature is still low for this time of season, Wofford said, but anyone setting foot outside will notice the difference after the long cold snap.
    — Nathan Solisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • During a bitter cold snap in December 2020, Nuon Sokkheng, a Cambodian migrant, died in a heatless shack.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The wildcard here is the snake’s ability to evolve to tolerate cold — after a severe 2010 cold snap, snake populations dropped, but have recovered.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
  • One recent afternoon, the town was preparing for another cold snap.
    — Yaqoob Akbary Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But as Variety reported earlier this year, production kicked off during a cold snap in Britain that required medics to treat a handful of contestants, at least 11 times.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 June 2023
  • It’s faced several problems this winter so far: a lack of running water, windows blowing out from a cold snap in February, and countless complaints from neighbors.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023

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