sleet

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

As the rain bumps into cold air, it will increasingly turn to sleet and snow across Wales and later on into parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and the West Midlands.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 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

The sleet on one’s lips tastes of smoke and sulphur.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

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

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

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, sleeted, snowed, and grew colder all the time.

From The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

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

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

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

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