Example Sentences

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Since the railway station canopy collapse in November 2024, which killed 16 people, calls for a transparent investigation into what happened have snowballed into a push for early polls.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

If she hadn’t acted, it might have snowballed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Cases of bank hold-ups and protests have snowballed across Lebanon recently as depositors have grown exasperated over informal capital controls that banks have imposed since an economic downturn began in 2019.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2022

In previous years, one setback might have snowballed into two or more.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Oh, how we hated him! and we'd have snowballed him, too, if we hadn't been afraid of the constable that lived next door.

From Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse by Storer, Florence