sleet

Showers are expected to stream in with sleet and snow possible in Shetland and Orkney as well as northern Scotland.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

By late afternoon Sunday, snowfall had shifted to a mix of sleet and snow.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 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

He’s whispering—spilling words like showers of sleet, his mouth three inches from my ear.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

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

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

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

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

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! 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 Neltje Blanchan

There was one time when I was little, and it had sleeted, and the sun came out just before it set, and seemed to set all the woods on fire.

From An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells

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