sleet
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River’s constantly tilted forward, against rain, sleet and wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The result is a mix of sunshine, rain, sleet, and snow, sometimes all in the same day.
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
Meteorologists said to expect heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Kabuo, his radio on, checked his barometer; it still held steady despite talk of rough weather, cold squalls of sleet reported to the north, out of the Strait of Georgia.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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"No; it sleets now and then, and sometimes blows."
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And winter oft, at eve, resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightful:---- Thomson.
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
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
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 James Lane Allen
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
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
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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 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 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
On Parliament Hill, the sleeting rain that had drenched Ottawa much of the day turned to snow, and defiant protesters remained in the streets, some of them dancing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 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
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