| 1 | Even in the midst of winter, she finds spring. | |
| 2 | It was the middle of winter. Snow lay thick on the ground. | |
| 3 | Three of my four daughters were born in the dead of winter. | |
| 4 | She was thin, as thin as a shaft of midwinter sunlight in the forests of the east, and tall, nearly as tall as he was. | |
| 5 | In the depth of winter, the earth was draped with a cloak of snow. |