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[sleet] / slit /










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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Kirsteen said showers and cold air were a "perfect recipe" for sleet and snow.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 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

March was on them like a bully then, raining and blowing between bouts of snow, and sleet, and hail; and indoors things were no better than out.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Spare my luve, ye winds that blaw, Plashy sleets and beating rain!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

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

During the meal he had much to recount of other sleets and their consequences.

From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

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

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

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

"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

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

It was a dreary, sleeting day in Foxborough — perfect weather for a Belichick news conference.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 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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