sleet

Hills across central and the north-west of Scotland could also see sleet and snow during the weekend.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 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

I make my way in the dark, up the hill, sleet rustling around me, hauling myself up by branches and tree trunks, my shoes slipping on the packed icy snow.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Stinging sleets, biting winds, desperately fatigued horses, valiant and persistent battles with snow drifts, icy cold temperatures and everything pertaining to heroism in the Arctics were there.

From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton

Spring! with all your searching east winds, with your late, shriveling frosts, with your occasional untimely sleets and snows, you are yet as much better than summer as hope is better than fruition.

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton

In this circumnavigation, amidst sleets and falls of snow, fogs, and much moist weather, the Resolution enjoyed nearly the same good state of health she had done in the temperate and torrid zones.

From A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 by James Cook

"No; it sleets now and then, and sometimes blows."

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

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

It rained, hailed, and sleeted until the country around and about them became very muddy and swampy, and at times covered with a sheet of sleet and ice.

From Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles by John McElroy

The dividing line between snow and rain still was heavily marked, but it sleeted and our hands were quite numbed.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon

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

Also, aside from anecdotal evidence of short-lived sleeting in the western suburbs, there was no ice, snow or other frozen precipitation.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2022

“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