had snowed
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past perfectof snow.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
snownounprecipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air.
Example Sentences
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It had snowed seven inches the night before I decided to get gravy bread again — the most snow O’Hare had seen in a single day in decades.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
They made it all the way to Denver but had to turn back — it had snowed too hard, and their connecting flight was canceled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Everything was blanketed in ash, so the charred black landscape she had expected looked as if it had snowed instead.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2022
"When we got to Scotland, to our surprise, when we woke up in the morning, everything was white - it had snowed - and we're in a sports car," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2018
You wouldn't even have known it had snowed at all.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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