sleet

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

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

Meteorologists said to expect heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

The storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain to parts of the South on Friday and then spread eastward over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

“Through rain, and sleet, and snow, and sometimes some pretty hot days with no air-conditioning.”

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

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

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 Henry Kendall

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

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

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

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 James Lane Allen

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

For the four days during which we were detained at this station it rained, sleeted, and snowed alternately and unceasingly.

From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Robert B. Booth

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

The new commute started in November, a gray, sleeting month that was all the more dreary because the job in Stamford that I had enjoyed for two years had been moved to New York.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2021

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

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

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