sleet

As the rain bumps into cold air, it will increasingly turn to sleet and snow across Wales and later on into parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and the West Midlands.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 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

It warns of “crippling ice and sleet to portions of the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley Friday.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

His back was covered with a layer of frozen sleet.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Child of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me, Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of the sea?

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

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

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

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 Allen, James Lane

During the meal he had much to recount of other sleets and their consequences.

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

I have called in the aid of sleets and snows, have besieged him in his white castle behind the glittering array of his icicles with threats of starvation.

From A Kentucky Cardinal by Allen, James Lane

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

Sad Mayflower! watched by winter stars,   And nursed by winter gales,   With petals of the sleeted spars,   And leaves of frozen sails!

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje

And what could be prettier, he said, than the woods after it sleeted all night, and hoar frost finished the job!

From Old Caravan Days by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

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

It was a raw, sleeting February night, the day after Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014

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

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