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  • noun Plural form of snowbank.

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Examples

  • We just got through another huge snowfall and the snowbanks are as tall as me.

    Coconut Custard Squares 2008

  • We just got through another huge snowfall and the snowbanks are as tall as me.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Thrilled about this new discovery he leaped & bounded with all his might through the snowbanks, sticking his nose into the snow like an ostrich in the sand & catching snowballs only to have them disintegrate on his tonque.

    Best Gun Dog Contest 2009

  • Emanuel, though not yet in charge of any city-owned snowplows, is still capable of shoveling out cars, extracting stranded citizens from snowbanks, and making note of his ascetic breakfast "Advil and Diet Coke" using Twitter.

    The Countdown: Carol The 'Wimp'.. Rahm To The Rescue? The Huffington Post 2011

  • Or else searching the snowbanks for a statue of the Infant of Prague I just bought on Ebay and that the Fed-ex guy handed over to my dog.

    Blogging when I should be novelling nissa_amas_katoj 2009

  • Emanuel, though not yet in charge of any city-owned snowplows, is still capable of shoveling out cars, extracting stranded citizens from snowbanks, and making note of his ascetic breakfast "Advil and Diet Coke" using Twitter.

    The Countdown: Carol The 'Wimp'.. Rahm To The Rescue? The Huffington Post 2011

  • After researching this place, I discovered that it was a winter resort at the foot of Mont Blanc in the Italian Alps. This was not Mt. Hood in layers of your old jeans and sweatshirts — this was Audrey Hepburn & Cary Grant in sunglasses, sipping white wine backed by ski lodges and snowbanks.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Professional Courtesy 2010

  • Emanuel, though not yet in charge of any city-owned snowplows, is still capable of shoveling out cars, extracting stranded citizens from snowbanks, and making note of his ascetic breakfast "Advil and Diet Coke" using Twitter.

    The Countdown: Carol The 'Wimp'.. Rahm To The Rescue? The Huffington Post 2011

  • Cars with studded tyres, cars bouncing off snowbanks, head-up displays for the drivers, and the first ever global sporting event covered entirely in the infrared part of the spectrum.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Emanuel, though not yet in charge of any city-owned snowplows, is still capable of shoveling out cars, extracting stranded citizens from snowbanks, and making note of his ascetic breakfast "Advil and Diet Coke" using Twitter.

    The Countdown: Carol The 'Wimp'.. Rahm To The Rescue? The Huffington Post 2011

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