Example Sentences

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For decades, astronomers have tried to understand why so many icy bodies in the outer solar system resemble snowmen, with two rounded sections joined together.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Many people took the opportunity to build snowmen and enjoy a day of sledging, transforming hills across the country into tobogganing slopes.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Svitlana Yakovleva tightly held her two grandchildren, Myroslava, 6, and Yevgen, 8, as they watched snowmen perform a choreographed rendition of a holiday mash-up.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Tired of Santas and relentlessly cheerful snowmen filling every screen?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

I know what they will draw: skipping ropes, jolly snowmen, listening to the radio, playing with a dog.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood