adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
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Jumble up the shades cottage-garden style or choose a cool colour such as cream that will show up on dark wintry days .
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Outside, it was a wintry day .
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It was a wintry day when Uncle was buried, with a bit of snow around.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wintry February morning
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Outside it was a cold wintry day, but Anne felt safe and warm inside by the fire.
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We can expect a few wintry showers on the northern hills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Experienced Iowa Republican activists suggest that undecided voters may stay home on what is likely to be a raw wintry evening.
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Her smiles were few and wintry .
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Large dark pines stood like sentinels guarding the sweep of wintry garden.
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She stared alone, and nomole appeared upon the wintry slopes below.
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The wintry street rolled by too slowly.
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The scriptorium was poorly lighted; and on wintry days, the cold freely penetrated and benumbed the body of the scribe.
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We walked in the wintry Perthshire countryside and were happy and at peace, refusing to think beyond the present.