snow globe
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The theater vanished into the green wormhole, disintegrating into a snow globe with the theater inside.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
“Each takes money and time. It’s better to be skating to where the puck is going. Nobody is talking about the snow globe of the future.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Sixty of us in the rising tram were in our own personal snow globe.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024
Martini Town, however, might as well have been a snow globe celebrating Picturesque Christmasville, U.S.A.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023
She shook the snow globe and watched the glittery snow swirl through the water to fill the empty world.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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