sleet

Strong northerly winds will sweep across the country, bringing blustery showers of rain, sleet, and hail, with snow over higher ground.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Snow, sleet and occasional icy rains have frozen over to cover much of Berlin in thin slabs of ice, which hospitals report have led to a spike in falls and injuries.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

A massive winter storm continues to hit large parts of the country, dumping snow, sleet and freezing rain and leaving hundreds of thousands without power in the South.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2026

Meteorologists said to expect heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

I could dimly see Papa and the judge through the driving sleet.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

So much of the finest forests of Kentucky had been lost through its annual summer tempests and its rarer but more awful wintry sleets.

From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

Spare my luve, ye winds that blaw, Plashy sleets and beating rain!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Now in the hearth he sits and, drowned Among the ashes, blows; Or through the room goes stealing 'round On cautious-stepping toes, Deep mantled in the drowsy sound Of night that sleets and snows.

From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

Here the first winter sleets and snows fall and lie, and here the spring frost lingers last unthawed.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

How soon the blasts of March—the snowy sleets, May turn your hasty flight, to seek again Your wonted warm abodes.

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various

It sleeted all morning, but the sun came out for the march.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 21, 2017

“You’re being rained on and snowed on and sleeted on all day long. It makes for misery.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2014

Sweated, froze, got sleeted on, rained on, snowed on, and never saw a deer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now when wan winter sunsets be Canary-colored down the sky; When nights are starless utterly, And sleeted winds cut moaning by, One's memory keeps one company, And conscience puts his "when" and "why."

From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Madison Julius Cawein

Yet without a second glance at the ice-covered waters, he followed his companions along the narrow walk of sleeted planks that ran out alongside the service-track.

From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

It was one of those lousy late-fall New York evenings, cold and dark and sort of half raining and half sleeting.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026

The temperature was little above freezing and it was sleeting, members of the team said at the time.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023

He added, “Go to a gas station in the middle of the winter, when it’s sleeting, and ask yourself how convenient it is.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2018

“It was raining, sleeting and snowing and I was out getting feed,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2015

And now it was sleeting, the snow already glistening with ice.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer