sleety
Example Sentences
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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
Sherman and I met on a frigid, sleety day, and she was dressed fashionably to defy the weather in a big, blazing orange sweater, light-colored wide pants and bouncy, thick-soled white high-tops.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Sometimes it was snow, sometimes it was rain and sometimes it was the sleety something in between.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
I can remember Cordelia throwing my blue knitted hat over the bridge, I remember falling through the ice and then my mother running toward me with her sleety hair.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
