Used in a Sentence

snowman

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for snowman.

Editorial note

The probability that shards will meld into a glass pane and water will form a snowman is nonzero, but simply very low.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of snowman gathered in one view.

noun

(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).

noun

(slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.

noun

(rare) An attractive but heartless man.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for snowman.

noun

(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).

noun

(slang) A playing card with the rank of eight.

noun

(rare) An attractive but heartless man.

noun

A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

Example sentences

1

The probability that shards will meld into a glass pane and water will form a snowman is nonzero, but simply very low.

2

You don't read Hacker News, and you can't imagine why having curly braces on a keyboard is more useful than a snowman character.

3

If UTF8 was better supported, you could do something like phone, snowman, snowman, pile of poo, phone.

4

Reading this was like watching a kid make a snowman on top of a mountain, then the snowman fell off the mountain and created a landslide that destroyed the nearby town.

5

All that this Snowman did is that he confirmed that the API's really exist and that there were requests for weakening of the security protocols.

6

Did you ever get it to recognize the snowman?

7

Have some more cute simple Santa, snowman, gifts artwork in the header area so it sets the mood for the customer when it pops open in the browser.

8

I got it as one of the suggestions while trying to make it recognize the snowman (my go-to character when I stumble on one of these tools).

9

The fact that it ends with the boy kneeling, sobbing over the melted remains of his magical snowman friend explains a lot about why Britons are so cynical I think.

10

A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB, so that i can see the snowman on your webpage (which would be probably 2-5 kB as png).

11

Thanks for trying out the game - I greatly appreciate your feedback Every time the spacebar is pressed (on keydown), the reindeer jumps - so the key to the game is to time the jumps such that the reindeer both clears the snowman, and has enough room to make another jump if necessary.

Quote examples

1

Having a 3 year old who cannot get enough of "Snowman!" and as a result listening to this song more times than Long.

2

Not the snowman, but there is an In-App purchase for "The Bear"

3

That's why the spy whose story is portrayed in the book and movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" started passing US secrets to the Soviets.

4

$ echo "I built a:snowman:." | sed -e 's/:snowman:/☃/g' I built a ☃.

Proper noun examples

1

Kudos, specially because it's also working with exotic unicode characters like ☃ (Snowman) or ☯ (Yin Yang).

2

In the UK 'The Snowman' has become a bit of an institution.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use snowman in a sentence?

The probability that shards will meld into a glass pane and water will form a snowman is nonzero, but simply very low.

What does snowman mean?

(baseball, golf) A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).

What part of speech is snowman?

snowman is commonly used as noun.