What is "snowbank"

Usage examples of "snowbank".

The two left wheels lifted off the ground when the skidder slammed into the snowbank, before dropping back onto all four wheels with a jarring thud.

We were driving from Chicago to New Orleans in an attempt to make Mardi Gras, which we would miss by a full day, arriving on Ash Wednesday, because in the next five miles we would spin out across the snow-covered highway, escape being piledriven by an oncoming truck by inches, plunge off the side of the road, and bury the Corvette headfirst to its rear wheels in snowbanks fifteen feet deep.

II One bright, sunshiny day of early winter, he trudged through the snowbanked street of Pontiac back to his home.

She supposed this numbness would finally overwhelm the cramps and that, in the end, her death might turn out to be quite merciful after all — like going to sleep in a snowbank — but it was moving much too slowly.

At the last possible instant he shifted back up, tramped on the accelerator pedal, and let his body sway freely as the Camaro's left rear end slammed into the snowbanks digging a coffin-sized divot and then bouncing off.

The last hour of the descent was undertaken during a long bloody sunset that turned the surrounding mist pink and made west-facing snowbanks look like killing fields.

Scum mottles the lee of snowbanks, and an occasional glow flows around exposed carcasses: the spirits of the dead, classical observers wrote.

Then the heavy thud as she hit the snowbank the passing ploughs had piled up at both ends of Will's semicircular driveway.

Soon the allo would dig out its customary winter den in a snowbank, after the manner of polar bears.

The speedometer had passed the one hundred post, and the snowbanks streamed past them on either side in ghastly silence.

Getting out, looking behind the car, he had seen a hole smashed through a snowbanks and there was melting snow sprayed across Christine's hood.

She struck the snowbanks pushing mounds of snow violently to either side.

The snowbanks ringing the driveway glittered with billions of diamond crystals.

Walkways an pavements hemmed in by the shrinking snowbanks were becoming canals.

To pick them up he drove his van carefully through flooded lanes, between shrinking snowbanks under gray skies that were dumping even more water on the soggy terrain.