sleety
Example Sentences
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The results of their hard work were met with excited cheers and shouts from hundreds of onlookers who braved the sleety weather to watch the daytime procession.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
New England is here after a sleety, soggy 28-16 playoff triumph over Houston, a contender that arrived in Foxborough riding a 10-game win streak, but left its offense at the airport.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Russian troops and military vehicles groaned down the long driveway of No. 144 under flurries of snow and sleety rain.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022
A farm insurance agent, he was killed when his car was struck broadside on a rural Iowa road on a sleety February night.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2019
Lesser waves dragged at him, trying to tug him back down the sand in their outgoing rush, and the mist parted and closed above him, and later a sleety rain beat on him.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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