After the blizzard, there was a snowdrift taller than our house. From LearnThat.org.
This suggests that the yeast are playing what game theorists call a snowdrift game. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
"I must see if I can break through the snowdrift.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Stuffed Elephant] Reference
First, you start with a likely snowdrift, and dig. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Into a deep snowdrift stuck the poor Stuffed Elephant. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Stuffed Elephant] Reference
On the drive to Ordensburg we are stuck in a snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
"In a snowdrift close to the entrance," replied Heinrich. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
Elephant does not like to be left all night in a snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Stuffed Elephant] Reference
"If you fall into a snowdrift, you'll see it's nice and soft.". From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
All around her, wrapped in snowdrift, there the open country lay. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Odin's throne, like a pale snowdrift that flies before the storm. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
"I broke through the ice of a pool, thinking it was a snowdrift.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
"And I know a riddle about when is a snowdrift like a boat," broke in. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
He saw a big auto come to a stop just the other side of the snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Stuffed Elephant] Reference
Amdi hit him high and low, tipping the Two-Legs over into a snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
A close-up of the faces from February 1899 next to a massive snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [Rediscovering a classic Washington weather photo] Reference
Crouched on a nearby snowdrift, Victor Boyarsky crosses himself and swears. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Find Thin Ice at the North Pole] Reference
OPPENHEIM: All right, walk with me now, as we head over to a snowdrift, Tony. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2007] Reference
All this while the Stuffed Elephant had been trying to wiggle out of the snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Stuffed Elephant] Reference
His fingers were ice-cold, like he'd been holding them in a snowdrift before class. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
She looked up at the plane, and watched us pass, a snowdrift curled across her back. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Stumpy pulled someone out of a snowdrift -- then he fell into one himself, unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
People will just jump out in the street and help you push your car out of a snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001] Reference
Then her hooves plunged through a snowdrift that held her steady, and she found gravel. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Only a little snow lay on it, and its blood still stained the snowdrift in which it lay. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
A "Thank you" card and gift from the young mother we dug out of the snowdrift yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
"Oh, my!" cried the garage man, backing away, and nearly falling into a snowdrift himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Stuffed Elephant] Reference
"I hope you won't play the lost lamb to her snowdrift!" he sneered, in a way that I resented. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
If he had stepped out of the plane into a ten-foot snowdrift he would not have been surprised. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
I crawled up the hill in my old Ford and found a parking spot in a pool of mush by a huge snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [Ornithology] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "Annie Laurie") Mr. DOUG GREEN (Singer): (Singing) Her brow is like the snowdrift. From Wordnik.com. [If Abraham Lincoln Had An iPod] Reference
Whatever had received it now came up about the puzzled young aviators as might a snowdrift or it heap of hay. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
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