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sleety

[slee-tee] / ˈsli ti /




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The results of their hard work were met with excited cheers and shouts from hundreds of onlookers who braved the sleety weather to watch the daytime procession.

From BBC Jan. 27, 2026

New England is here after a sleety, soggy 28-16 playoff triumph over Houston, a contender that arrived in Foxborough riding a 10-game win streak, but left its offense at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

Sometimes it was snow, sometimes it was rain and sometimes it was the sleety something in between.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2022

A farm insurance agent, he was killed when his car was struck broadside on a rural Iowa road on a sleety February night.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 2019

Lesser waves dragged at him, trying to tug him back down the sand in their outgoing rush, and the mist parted and closed above him, and later a sleety rain beat on him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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