How do you use the word "winter" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "winter": Winter is my favorite season. During winter I sleep with two blankets.

Winter Meaning

/ˈwɪntə/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounTraditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning either the period between the winter solstice to the spring equinox, or the months of December, January, and February in temperate and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere and the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

nounThe period of decay, old age, death, or the like.

Sentence Examples

Winter is my favorite season.

During winter I sleep with two blankets.

The sky is a hazy shade of winter.

CEFR Practice Quiz

In many cold countries, snow is common during the ____ season of the year.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The whole of the city looks very beautiful in ____, especially when all the buildings are covered in white snow today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-West Germanic *wintru, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz (“winter”). Cognate with West Frisian winter (“winter”), Dutch winter (“winter”), German Winter (“winter”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vinter (“winter”), Faroese and Icelandic vetur (“winter”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra." — a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:

"And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold." — 1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1:

"It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation." — 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:

"[…] a woman, tall, and strong of aspect, of some thirty winters by seeming, [...]" — 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, volume I, Longmans, Green and Co., published 1914, page 2:

"Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge." — 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:

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