snow globe

American  

[snoh glohb] / ˈsnoʊ ˌgloʊb /

noun

snow globes plural

1. a clear glass or plastic ball containing a model scene, a clear liquid, and white flakes that settle like snow when the globe is shaken.

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Example Sentences

The Paris he gives us might as well be cradled in a snow globe, it’s so schematically perfect; similarly, Ms. Kelly’s smile, which outshines the City of Light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Martini Town, however, might as well have been a snow globe celebrating Picturesque Christmasville, U.S.A.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023

The falling snow seen through window panes lends to the effect that this pair have found themselves isolated in a surreal but beautiful snow globe.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Instead, she likened the concert to peering into the tiny cabin inside a snow globe, and seeing what life had been like for Mitchell over the last decade.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2023

She rolls her eyes at me as if the two of us know better than to take a snow globe to a place where there’s already going to be snow.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez