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Definition of blizzard in English: blizzardnoun ˈblɪzədˈblɪzərd 1A severe snowstorm with high winds. Example sentencesExamples - The blizzard became severe on the afternoon of the 25th.
- In the 1980's, after more than 100 wind turbines were set up across the state, none of them survived blizzards with winds blowing at 130 kilometers an hour.
- In the winter, blizzards and ice storms strike all the way down into Texas.
- Unpredictable summer storms, floods, and other water accompanied disasters such as hurricanes, blizzards, and tornados are some more reasons for water damage.
- The illustrated book covers 70 years of Yorkshire's gales, blizzards, tornados and droughts.
- In addition, high winds accompanying blizzards have pushed snow through grills and into buildings' ductwork.
- The heavy blizzards can be so severe and the snowdrifts have been known to reach the roof.
- Small trees would be cut down to mark the spot because of the severe winter with its blizzards and bad weather.
- Since that first winter, I've been through two ice storms and blizzards, as well as ‘normal’ winters, and frankly, I hate them.
- And then there are the weather warnings for hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, floods, winds, and tides.
- In all it was a beautiful quiet day and definitely not a blizzard, just a snowstorm.
- If you lose electric power during a blizzard or ice storm, you probably will lose your heat.
- In many natural disasters, be it a blizzard, tornado or hurricane, the power is sometimes the first utility that fails.
- Meteorologists have long known that extreme weather phenomena - blizzards, hurricanes, drought, and the like - coincide with these cycles.
- Many of the famous blizzards and northeasters that battered the East Coast and sank ships in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean throughout history were bomb cyclones.
- In some places, the blizzard winds had blown their path clear of snow.
- The blizzard winds had come in much sooner than they normally did and he and the maids had been stuck in the compound for three weeks.
- Much of the year I worry about my northern friends, with their blizzards, tornadoes, heat waves, droughts.
- Winds are strong and frequent, and hurricanes and blizzards are common.
- In my years, I have witnessed, first hand, tornadoes, blizzards, nor'easters, drought, ice storms, lighting, flood and rain.
Synonyms snowstorm, snow blast, snow squall white-out - 1.1 A large or overwhelming number of things arriving suddenly.
Example sentencesExamples - I say ‘happily’ - that was before a blizzard of information descended on us council tenants about the so-called three options.
- Instead of getting on with something useful, managers will be delayed and demoralised by a blizzard of forms to fill in.
- In an effort to help clear a path through this blizzard of misinformation and propaganda, here are the pertinent facts.
- Thereafter, we were treated to a blizzard of corporate cameos.
- Hackers tried to trick users into visiting a maliciously-constructed website using a blizzard of spam emails last week.
- And while hitting the top 10 has created a blizzard of credibility-tinged hype around the group, they just can't live up to their radical image.
- There will be a storm of prudent rhetoric, a blizzard of initiatives and tax breaks and a torrent of concessions towards pensioners and motorists in rural areas.
- And did this blizzard of deal activity generate tangible additional value for their shareholders?
- Regardless of what it drafts, the agency expects a similar blizzard of public comment.
- It's about the emotional trauma suffered by those who get caught-up in the blizzard of pink slips in today's harsh, corporate climate.
- As the blizzard of redundancies and closures continued through the 1970s and 80s, finding investment for such ventures was about as easy as crossing a motorway blindfolded.
- Each month, I faced a blizzard of bills, which came to dominate my life.
- Then came the blizzard of self-serving press releases.
- People were helping others run and avoid the blizzard of debris.
- But at least there's some attempt to deal with and current affairs amid all that girl-mag blizzard of fashion, bizarre beauty treatments and gossip.
- However, in the blizzard of journalistic hype, these subtle forms they create are being lost.
- The flagship scheme then became lost in a blizzard of red tape.
- A blizzard of speeches and press conferences marked Day One of the General Election.
- Looking through the blizzard of wildly differing reports of the housing market, there is at least a hint that activity is slowing and that prices have - not before time - topped out.
- The code breaks into numbers, which decay further into a blizzard of zeros and ones.
- In the days immediately following his £2.3m signing a week past on Wednesday, a blizzard of newsprint was devoted to the 23-year-old.
- A couple of weeks ago, my inbox received a blizzard of emails, courtesy of the latest virus.
- There has also been a blizzard of complaints about poor customer service, falling earnings, rising debt, and a hostile attempt to force changes at board level.
- We'll gather this blizzard of user reports into sections.
- The mass no-show came despite a flurry of ads encouraging participation, and a veritable blizzard of TV spots exploring the question of voter apathy, especially among youth.
- His first two solo shows were a blizzard of styles, combining watercolours and charcoals, landscapes and portraits, religious paintings crafted lovingly by a committed atheist.
- Marking a memo ‘Secret’ gives it a certain cachet, makes it worthy of attention in the blizzard of paperwork that consumes government offices.
- The Minister says that she has had to make regular visits to the regional capital to cope with a blizzard of bureaucracy.
- To curb overheating, regulators have produced a blizzard of edicts in the last fortnight, and made a few high profile arrests.
- He is a constant bundle of energy, founding and leading a whole blizzard of extra-curricular clubs and plays, never quite satisfied for long.
- There is irony in the book's blizzard of anecdotal details.
- As I braced for the weather that's buffeted the East Coast recently, I thought: What a spiraling blizzard of bad policy we face.
- Politicians, policy experts and academics are amazingly complacent about the blizzard of cross-subsidies that now rages.
- Or had it provided sanctuary from the remorseless blizzard of e-mails, phone calls, meetings and other responsibilities?
- The blizzard of details the prosecution produced was meticulous and almost irrelevant.
- Most Western directors seem so afraid of boring an audience or losing their interest that they bombard our senses with a blizzard of images and a cacophony of noise.
- A blizzard of writs, in fact, and all from the same person.
- The main product was a blizzard of internal memos - so many that most days could be spent just responding to them.
- What is the average citizen to do, facing this blizzard of charges and countercharges and theories and countertheories?
- As usual with governments, this recognition is late and accompanied by a blizzard of bureaucracy and paperwork.
Origin Early 19th century (originally US, denoting a violent blow): of unknown origin. Rhymes gizzard, izard, lizard, vizard, wizard Definition of blizzard in US English: blizzardnounˈblizərdˈblɪzərd 1A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility. Example sentencesExamples - In addition, high winds accompanying blizzards have pushed snow through grills and into buildings' ductwork.
- Much of the year I worry about my northern friends, with their blizzards, tornadoes, heat waves, droughts.
- In all it was a beautiful quiet day and definitely not a blizzard, just a snowstorm.
- Meteorologists have long known that extreme weather phenomena - blizzards, hurricanes, drought, and the like - coincide with these cycles.
- And then there are the weather warnings for hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, floods, winds, and tides.
- Many of the famous blizzards and northeasters that battered the East Coast and sank ships in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean throughout history were bomb cyclones.
- In some places, the blizzard winds had blown their path clear of snow.
- Small trees would be cut down to mark the spot because of the severe winter with its blizzards and bad weather.
- The heavy blizzards can be so severe and the snowdrifts have been known to reach the roof.
- The blizzard winds had come in much sooner than they normally did and he and the maids had been stuck in the compound for three weeks.
- The blizzard became severe on the afternoon of the 25th.
- In the winter, blizzards and ice storms strike all the way down into Texas.
- If you lose electric power during a blizzard or ice storm, you probably will lose your heat.
- The illustrated book covers 70 years of Yorkshire's gales, blizzards, tornados and droughts.
- In my years, I have witnessed, first hand, tornadoes, blizzards, nor'easters, drought, ice storms, lighting, flood and rain.
- Unpredictable summer storms, floods, and other water accompanied disasters such as hurricanes, blizzards, and tornados are some more reasons for water damage.
- In many natural disasters, be it a blizzard, tornado or hurricane, the power is sometimes the first utility that fails.
- In the 1980's, after more than 100 wind turbines were set up across the state, none of them survived blizzards with winds blowing at 130 kilometers an hour.
- Since that first winter, I've been through two ice storms and blizzards, as well as ‘normal’ winters, and frankly, I hate them.
- Winds are strong and frequent, and hurricanes and blizzards are common.
Synonyms snowstorm, snow blast, snow squall - 1.1 An overabundance; a deluge.
a blizzard of legal forms Example sentencesExamples - The blizzard of details the prosecution produced was meticulous and almost irrelevant.
- Politicians, policy experts and academics are amazingly complacent about the blizzard of cross-subsidies that now rages.
- People were helping others run and avoid the blizzard of debris.
- Hackers tried to trick users into visiting a maliciously-constructed website using a blizzard of spam emails last week.
- As usual with governments, this recognition is late and accompanied by a blizzard of bureaucracy and paperwork.
- I say ‘happily’ - that was before a blizzard of information descended on us council tenants about the so-called three options.
- To curb overheating, regulators have produced a blizzard of edicts in the last fortnight, and made a few high profile arrests.
- In an effort to help clear a path through this blizzard of misinformation and propaganda, here are the pertinent facts.
- Thereafter, we were treated to a blizzard of corporate cameos.
- He is a constant bundle of energy, founding and leading a whole blizzard of extra-curricular clubs and plays, never quite satisfied for long.
- Marking a memo ‘Secret’ gives it a certain cachet, makes it worthy of attention in the blizzard of paperwork that consumes government offices.
- The flagship scheme then became lost in a blizzard of red tape.
- Each month, I faced a blizzard of bills, which came to dominate my life.
- The main product was a blizzard of internal memos - so many that most days could be spent just responding to them.
- What is the average citizen to do, facing this blizzard of charges and countercharges and theories and countertheories?
- In the days immediately following his £2.3m signing a week past on Wednesday, a blizzard of newsprint was devoted to the 23-year-old.
- The mass no-show came despite a flurry of ads encouraging participation, and a veritable blizzard of TV spots exploring the question of voter apathy, especially among youth.
- There will be a storm of prudent rhetoric, a blizzard of initiatives and tax breaks and a torrent of concessions towards pensioners and motorists in rural areas.
- There is irony in the book's blizzard of anecdotal details.
- As I braced for the weather that's buffeted the East Coast recently, I thought: What a spiraling blizzard of bad policy we face.
- Or had it provided sanctuary from the remorseless blizzard of e-mails, phone calls, meetings and other responsibilities?
- The code breaks into numbers, which decay further into a blizzard of zeros and ones.
- Most Western directors seem so afraid of boring an audience or losing their interest that they bombard our senses with a blizzard of images and a cacophony of noise.
- But at least there's some attempt to deal with and current affairs amid all that girl-mag blizzard of fashion, bizarre beauty treatments and gossip.
- There has also been a blizzard of complaints about poor customer service, falling earnings, rising debt, and a hostile attempt to force changes at board level.
- And did this blizzard of deal activity generate tangible additional value for their shareholders?
- A blizzard of speeches and press conferences marked Day One of the General Election.
- The Minister says that she has had to make regular visits to the regional capital to cope with a blizzard of bureaucracy.
- As the blizzard of redundancies and closures continued through the 1970s and 80s, finding investment for such ventures was about as easy as crossing a motorway blindfolded.
- However, in the blizzard of journalistic hype, these subtle forms they create are being lost.
- Instead of getting on with something useful, managers will be delayed and demoralised by a blizzard of forms to fill in.
- Regardless of what it drafts, the agency expects a similar blizzard of public comment.
- Looking through the blizzard of wildly differing reports of the housing market, there is at least a hint that activity is slowing and that prices have - not before time - topped out.
- His first two solo shows were a blizzard of styles, combining watercolours and charcoals, landscapes and portraits, religious paintings crafted lovingly by a committed atheist.
- A blizzard of writs, in fact, and all from the same person.
- A couple of weeks ago, my inbox received a blizzard of emails, courtesy of the latest virus.
- Then came the blizzard of self-serving press releases.
- And while hitting the top 10 has created a blizzard of credibility-tinged hype around the group, they just can't live up to their radical image.
- We'll gather this blizzard of user reports into sections.
- It's about the emotional trauma suffered by those who get caught-up in the blizzard of pink slips in today's harsh, corporate climate.
Origin Early 19th century (originally US, denoting a violent blow): of unknown origin. |