sleet

River’s constantly tilted forward, against rain, sleet and wind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

In some sections, workers struggle to repair sections of netting torn by sleet and ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

Outbreaks of rain spreading east across all counties is likely to fall as sleet and snow over some higher ground for a time.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

The wind-driven sleet stung our skin like thousands of pricking needles.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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

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 Madison Julius Cawein

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

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

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

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

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

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

"No. I tried to keep my pipe lighted in the street, but it blew and sleeted too hard."

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

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