How to Use snowed in in a Sentence

snowed in

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  • On the first night of the rest of his life, Jim Harbaugh got snowed in.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Spann was in the station when Burns called to say he was snowed in.
    — Jeremy Gray | [email protected], al, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Cars were buried in the parking lot, leaving many fans snowed in.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
  • So we were snowed in at this hotel: Gabe, Chris Ryall, and myself.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Don't wait until you're snowed in to order a shovel—get one now.
    — Amanda Tarlton, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Residents have told horror stories about being stuck, and snowed in at homes with no way in or out.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Chances are, you’ll probably get snowed in by all of the Christmas releases and have zero chance to make any noise on the Hot 100 until the new year.
    — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Semans and his wife, Barbara, were snowed in for 15 days, using a propane space heater to ward off the cold after losing power.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • From the effort to get here, to the possibility that sometimes in the winter you can be snowed in or shut down because of the weather for two or three days.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • However, her plans are derailed when she is snowed in with her former crush, now nemesis Tyler.
    — Isa Luzarraga, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Two people had been snowed in their cabin since December 6th.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • When the conductor was snowed in, early in 1944, Mr. Lee stepped from the concertmaster’s chair to conduct Bizet’s music.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Shahida Muhammad, her husband, and their one-year-old baby were snowed in their home without power.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • With his car snowed in, Van Buren took public transportation — first a bus, then a subway — and walked the final seven blocks to the stadium.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Anthony Cimino, a 51-year-old retiree, said he’s been snowed in for about a week in the mountain community of Running Springs.
    — John Antczak, Amy Taxin and Ben Finley, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Theater employee Kristen Epp, 19, recently moved to the mountains and didn’t know what to do after being snowed in.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • More than 600 Orange County middle school students were among those stuck in the San Bernardino mountains after getting snowed in while attending camps last week.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Lastreto and Chaitanya were snowed in for four weeks when a bitter storm blanketed the bumpy two-mile road that leads to a large meadow where their 190-acre homestead houses their eponymous brand, Swami Select.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • To make matters worse, supplies are dwindling, not just because people are snowed in, but because two of the three area supermarkets have been red-tagged—one actually had its roof collapse under the weight of the snow.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Because of the remote locations in which people hunt for the bounty, several searchers have ended up drowning, falling, or perishing after being snowed in.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
  • California residents snowed in after heavy snowfall Authorities said some residents in the mountains east of Los Angeles may be stranded in their homes for at least another week as plows struggle against back-to-back snowstorms.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • San Bernardino County on Wednesday launched a new service to deliver medication refills to homes, responding to concerns that prescriptions for elderly residents who were snowed in were running out.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023

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