Sleet

//sliːt//

"Sleet" in a Sentence (13 examples)

In a far retreat / there lies a haven; towards the deep doth stand / an island, on whose jutting headlands beat / the broken billows, shivered into sleet.

Sleet is falling.

It's not much fun to walk through sleet without even a warm jacket.

Sleet was falling from the sky.

There was sleet.

Beyond the rail there was winter night, a moving blackness where the waves rushed and clamored; straining into the great dark, men sensed only the bitter salt of sea-scud, the nettle of sleet and the lash of wind.

Forecasters said the storm was bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain to Midwestern and Southern states, where temperatures were expected to be 20 to 40 degrees below average.

The harsh winter mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain has left more than 300,000 people without power from the southwestern U.S. state of Texas to the northeastern U.S. state of Maine.

Tomorrow there'll be sleet.

When there is snow, ice, sleet, hail, thunder, rain, and wind.

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Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet

I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.

It was dark, it was cold, it was sleeting - dreadful conditions for driving... perfect conditions for an accident.

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