How To Use Sleet In A Sentence

  • More snow, sleet and rain is forecast for much of the country this week. The Sun
  • Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next crossing was the Birch Creek Valley, and it was sleeting.
  • Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wetness turned to rain, then to sleet, and then to a nasty, slushy snow, blowing into my face no matter which direction I took.
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  • The bad weather started a little after noon yesterday, a steady patter of sleet that lasted for hours, but didn't accumulate.
  • The lower-lying southern part of the country was also expected to be affected by sleet and snow showers.
  • SNOW is set to hit some areas again - with sleet and icy showers lashing the rest of the country, it was warned yesterday. The Sun
  • She just hoped they would arrive before the ever-darkening clouds let loose with a soaking rain, sleet, or snow.
  • Since Friday it has turned colder, with bitter northerly winds feeding in sleet and snow showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The big freeze is set to carry on this week with more cold, snow, sleet and ice. Times, Sunday Times
  • We woke under dull, drear skies, with a steadily increasing wind accompanied by blasts of sleet as the day wore on.
  • The rain turns to sleet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Northerly weather can bring cold conditions with snow and sleet in the winter, and cool, showery rain in the summer, particularly along the Eastern edge of Britain.
  • Be prepared to fish in hostile conditions of rain, sleet and snow with a chill wind biting your flesh, and with weed clogging your line.
  • Cloudy, further spells of sleet or snow in central and northern areas. Times, Sunday Times
  • This time it was February instead of August, with a sleety sky and the promise of flurries in the forecast for the afternoon, and six inches of snow overnight. Fly Away Home
  • But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet.
  • Two hours up, above the tree line, it was hard to catch breath in the biting wind and sleet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some sleet and rain showers in the south. Times, Sunday Times
  • The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end.
  • Much better here in Cleveland — with sleet, wind and frostbites. Apple cranberry crisp | smitten kitchen
  • A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
  • a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow
  • The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was very cold with light snow showers, sleet and rain, but the pitch, despite being heavy, was in remarkably good condition.
  • The snow fell outside, sleet tapping on the window.
  • Showers of sleet, snow and hailstones will continue up to the weekend but there will be clear spells with the possibility of sunshine breaking through in the latter half of the week.
  • Expect a mix of rain, sleet and hill snow at first with more of a snow risk from midweek. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was sleeting so hard we could barely see for 30 yards.
  • The wind had been howling for three days now, a storm from the east that whistled across the high tops and dumped sudden squalls of sleeting rain in the valleys.
  • Snow and sleet continued across western and northeast areas last night. Times, Sunday Times
  • In York rain and sleet driven by gale force winds caught many workers on their way home the previous evening.
  • Being debarred from the deck by incessant showers of spray, sleet, and snow, and the cold of mid-winter being unbearable in the dark, damp saloon, I went to bed at four for the first two days. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
  • Snow, sleet and rain had swept Britain during the night.
  • Graupel is a wonderful form of precipitation. It is not snow, not hail, not sleet, and definitely not rain.
  • Some sleet and rain showers in the south. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since Friday it has turned colder, with bitter northerly winds feeding in sleet and snow showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Full marks to the players who braved the snow, sleet and freezing conditions to serve up a fast spirited game.
  • The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
  • If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet
  • Softened by the sleet in the ice-cold wind the sand grew muddy and pliant beneath the questing fingers of water. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • Two minutes later, it was sleeting and hailing, we were both soaked to the skin, and we were both miserable.
  • The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. Essays: Second Series (1844)
  • Rain, hail, sleet or snow, the game will continue and no overs will be lost.
  • Thursday the weather was lousy with snow and sleet showers being forecast and some heavy falls of snow likely.
  • Cloudy with some rain, sleet or snow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two hours up, above the tree line, it was hard to catch breath in the biting wind and sleet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Snow and sleet continued across western and northeast areas last night. Times, Sunday Times
  • Weather Phenomenon Prior to the Passing of the Front Contact with the Front After the Passing of the Front Temperature Cool Warming suddenly Warmer then leveling off Atmospheric Pressure Decreasing steadily Leveling off Slight rise followed by a decrease Winds South to southeast Variable South to southwest Precipitation Showers, snow, sleet or drizzle Light drizzle None Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and then stratus Stratus, sometimes cumulonimbus Clearing with scattered stratus, sometimes scattered cumulonimbus Air masses and frontal transitional zones
  • Southern England looks set to remain cloudy and rather cold with a wintry mixture of light rain, sleet and some hill snow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some sleet and rain showers in the south. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forecasters also warned of a return to heavy rain and cooler temperatures with a wintry mix of sleet, hail and snow set to hit early next week. The Sun
  • The bad conditions were caused when the snow, sleet and rain which fell yesterday froze later in the evening.
  • What had started as a mild wind and light rain ended by morning as a howling northerly and sleet and snow.
  • It was no great full-rigg’d ship, nor majestic steamer, steering firmly through the gale, but seem’d one of those superb little schooner yachts I had often seen lying anchor’d, rocking so jauntily, in the waters around New York, or up Long Island sound—now flying uncontroll’d with torn sails and broken spars through the wild sleet and winds and waves of the night. Edgar Poe’s Significance. Specimen Days
  • We got outside in this kind of sleety cold day, and we sent back in and asked him if he would go a certain Saturday which would have been about ten days off. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • Southern England looks set to remain cloudy and rather cold with a wintry mixture of light rain, sleet and some hill snow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conditions were damp and foggy after morning sleet.
  • But all the titanic steel structure above and the unfloored bottom-chords and girders of the outer, or extension, arm of the cantilever had been swept bare of snow by the winter gales and left glistening with the glaze of the last shower of sleet. Out of the Primitive
  • As they reached the summit, an icy northerly wind began to blow sleet into their faces.
  • Thick clouds were gathering, heralding the approach of freezing rain and sleet.
  • More significantly, I ceased to notice the rain, the sleet and the force-10 gale.
  • Inclement weather, which included snow, sleet, and freezing rain, and poor track conditions were cited as the reasons for cancellation.
  • Softened by the sleet in the ice-cold wind the sand grew muddy and pliant beneath the questing fingers of water. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • Snow and sleet stormed down. STUART: A Life Backwards
  • Meanwhile the locked out picket line remains in place, in spite of the onset of winter with its zero overnight temperatures, strong winds, rain, sleet, and light falls of snow.
  • They are predicting cold temperatures, with the chance of sleet and maybe snow on the mountains. The Sun
  • As they reached the summit, an icy northerly wind began to blow sleet into their faces.
  • It's a sleety, unprepossessing kind of day and nobody's out unless they have to be.
  • The wipers went to work, pushing the sleet and snow from the windshield.
  • We barely managed to get our waterproofs on before it turned to heavy, sleety rain but we were no distance at all from Kirkton of Glenisla where my ever-patient sister and Elli were waiting in the car with IrnBru32, coffee and picnic. Cateran recce runs #2
  • Temperatures rose overnight and the snow was replaced by sleet and rain.
  • Throughout the passage, Ahab stands on the deck as if transfixed, staring blindly ahead into the wind and sleet.
  • Come, lordship," Sleet said again, holding his ermine robe of office out to him. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
  • Any more rain, sleet and snow. The Sun
  • Dark morning sleet whitecrusts the world once more, shrouds remains of January thaw: butts, bits of Styrofoam cups, the black-hoofed leg bone of a deer, dragged home again and again and again by our dog; the same bone I heave into the hemlocks each time I go for wood. February
  • Car windows are always better open, even if it is raining, sleeting, or well below freezing outside.
  • Since the epic dump last week, the weather has warmed a little, and we have received nothing but sleet and rain, which has turned the once fluffy powder snow into granulated sugar snow.
  • Expect a mix of rain, sleet and hill snow at first with more of a snow risk from midweek. Times, Sunday Times
  • Weather Phenomenon Prior to the Passing of the Front Contact with the Front After the Passing of the Front Temperature Cool Warming suddenly Warmer then leveling off Atmospheric Pressure Decreasing steadily Leveling off Slight rise followed by a decrease Winds South to southeast Variable South to southwest Precipitation Showers, snow, sleet or drizzle Light drizzle None Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and then stratus Stratus, sometimes cumulonimbus Clearing with scattered stratus, sometimes scattered cumulonimbus Air masses and frontal transitional zones
  • Northern Kentucky is likely to get snow mixed with sleet.
  • The rain may turn into sleet or snow in northern hills. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most areas will have the same mix of sunshine and scattered sleet or snow showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Softened by the sleet in the ice-cold wind the sand grew muddy and pliant beneath the questing fingers of water. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • Forecasters said that the blizzards would return to the South tomorrow, with sleet and snow continuing at least until the end of the week. Times, Sunday Times
  • Any wintry showers - hail, sleet and snow - will be restricted to the north west of the country, we might get them in northwest England and Wales.
  • There has been sunshine, hail, rain, sleet, wind and calm all within minutes of each other, but more often at the same time; a tangible oxymoron.
  • In tail of the thunders fell pouring storms of sleet and hail.
  • I'm driving home in the miserable sleet, and the tune comes braying from my radio.
  • Depending on how cold that surface layer is, and how thick, the rain falling through that colder air will either freeze as it falls, landing as sleet; or, it will freeze on contact with the surface, which we call freezing rain. Blog updates
  • Acid rain is a popular term for the atmospheric deposition of acidified rain, snow, sleet, hail, acidifying gases and particles, as well as acidified fog and cloud water. Acid rain
  • I loved the howling winds and horizontal sleet, especially once I'd reached the Station Hotel in Prahran when they made their own overproof beers.
  • Snow, sleet, driving rain and gale force winds were sweeping across the north west today (Saturday).
  • Two hours up, above the tree line, it was hard to catch breath in the biting wind and sleet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Northern Kentucky is likely to get snow mixed with sleet.
  • There are two inches of snow on the course and it was snowing and sleeting there today.
  • The wind howls through them, stinging them with sleet and ice.
  • On the day the fourth quarter financial report for Hi-T was finished, on a sleety Tuesday in January, Elaine Eisenway did her customary and thorough final review, then logged off and wrote down the password on a slip of paper. VELOCITY
  • VANCOUVER For the last two weeks, weather at the Cypress Mountain freestyle ski venue has been a mix of rain, sleet, snow and brilliant sunshine. 'Hurricane' may do the trick for USA's Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson
  • It never snowed in Austin, but that morning there was definitely sleet on the ground.
  • BANDUNG: A heavy downpour of sleet accompanied by strong winds hit Bandung on Monday afternoon, felling several trees and causing damage to a car. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • Such is the month of April, but be sure not to miss out between those squally showers of rain and sleet if a warmer spell arrives, no matter how brief.
  • When we got out of the car it was blowing an icy, sleety gale.
  • For all I cared it could've been sleeting down and blowing a gale: I felt better than I had for a long time.
  • If you wanna pretend you're steelheading just because you're getting snowed or sleeted on, go for it! Great Lakers Not Steelhead?
  • It was sleeting, and my team spotted a ribbon of smoke in the forest and wheeled off the road to a campfire, around which huddled six Lithuanian cyclists.
  • The sheer variety and unpredictability of our weather is a unique characteristic of this country - an often constantly changing kaleidoscope of sun, wind, rain, sleet and snow.
  • A rain machine sends water sleeting down as two carriages lumber into action and Fagin's lone figure hobbles back along the street.
  • Oh, how we'll laugh about this in November, when we're shivering in sub-zero temperatures and walking through freezing sleet.
  • He frowned as he stared out the window at the sleet driving against the window pane.
  • Cloudy with some rain, sleet or snow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now thou's turned out, for a 'thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld. WN.com - Financial News
  • Its pure white heart of snow often is hardened into grey and traitorous sleet.
  • And he is a fulle felonous best: and he chacethe and sleethe the olifaunt. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Yesterday, however, sleet began to fall about the middle of the afternoon and continued through the night.
  • He saw the shafts sleet down across the fort, and his heart rejoiced, for surely nothing could live under the merciless beating of that steel-pointed blizzard!
  • Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest. Times, Sunday Times
  • SNOW is set to hit some areas again - with sleet and icy showers lashing the rest of the country, it was warned yesterday. The Sun
  • The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
  • Snow and sleet continued across western and northeast areas last night. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lower-lying southern part of the country was also expected to be affected by sleet and snow showers.
  • If you have ever driven through dense precipitation such as rain, snow, sleet, or through fog, then you know the potential danger, especially when your vehicle is not equipped to face such conditions.
  • It scraped through the barns day and night and drove sleet-rash into my face, preaching at my chapped lips and fingers. WHITE LIES
  • Most areas will have the same mix of sunshine and scattered sleet or snow showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be good sunshine tomorrow but also a few hail, sleet or snow showers.
  • The warmth and pleasantness of the riviera always comes as a delightful contrast to the sleet and snow of the preceding five days.
  • It was sleeting, and my team spotted a ribbon of smoke in the forest and wheeled off the road to a campfire, around which huddled six Lithuanian cyclists.
  • While crossing the 1200m Pelion Gap, below Mt Ossa, Tassie's highest mountain, Shaggy's hiking group got hit by a blizzard, hurling down the full box and dice of sleet, hail, snow and rain.
  • Cloudy with some rain, sleet or snow. Times, Sunday Times
  • the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway
  • Life is still much the same: a constant battle against the elements, as wind and sleeting rain batter the coal-mining land to black slush and mud.
  • A drum pounded, a horn blasted, and a withering fire of crossbow bolts sleeted across the dancing crabs. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
  • Most areas will have the same mix of sunshine and scattered sleet or snow showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • We grew immense beards, we were buried in storms of sleet, our bloodshot eyes sank deep into our heads, our uniforms disappeared beneath an encrustation of icy clag, our hands were torn as though by cats, and our fingers curled up into leaden clubs. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • Some sleet and rain showers in the south. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sheets of ice-pebble meteorites sleeted downwards, burning crimson contrails with lightning forks rippling in their wake. The Dreaming Void
  • Northern Kentucky is likely to get snow mixed with sleet.
  • But it's been sleeting for the last ten minutes and you've been standing out in it.
  • As night fell, the wind began to howl and snow and sleet battered the bateaux wherein Washington's amphibious force sat, prepared to fight.
  • We hurried churchward under heavy sleety-looking clouds. Times, Sunday Times
  • What about taking photographs when it's actually snowing or sleeting?
  • Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung.
  • Snow and sleet stormed down. STUART: A Life Backwards
  • 'B-o-y Jove, what a night!' exclaimed Facey, as a blash of sleet dashed across the window as if some one had thrown a handful of pebbles against it. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
  • The weather had warmed up to the 20's and it sleeted all day, and that gun had performed flawlessly since before daylight. Winchester Super X3 12 gauge thoughts? comparisons?
  • Any more rain, sleet and snow. The Sun
  • Biting winds, heavy rain, sleet showers and muddy underfoot conditions conspired to make life extremely difficult for the players.
  • The wind began to build and the sleet to blow about.
  • Even as she looked, Chilcoot was wrapped in rolling mist and whirling cloud, and a storm of sleet and wind roared down upon the toiling pigmies. CHAPTER 3
  • Weather experts predict rain and sleet in York and snow on the North York Moors, with temperatures dipping to - 2C or 28.4F tonight.
  • 'Freaking out' over Midwest megastorm Updated 46 minutes ago 2/1/2011 4:53:46 AM +00:00 A monster winter storm had the central U.S. gearing up its defenses on Monday against a potentially deadly mix of sleet, snow and ice that could affect 100 million people. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • The battle, launched at 05.30 on a sleety morning, began very well.
  • All was silent for a while as the pair of them watched the rain sleeting down from the cloudy sky above, not halting once on its flight to the ground.
  • Black and white motes sleeted before his vision, blinding him. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
  • Showers, sometimes of sleet or snow will not be uncommon when the wind is in the north or north-west.
  • The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
  • In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
  • Forecasters also warned of a return to heavy rain and cooler temperatures with a wintry mix of sleet, hail and snow set to hit early next week. The Sun
  • You have to have a real commitment to do that in rain, sleet and snow.
  • The sleet stung our faces and made the rigging icy and slippery, the yards were swaying back and forth with the roll of the ship.
  • From the atmosphere, water molecules fall upon the Earth's surface as rain, snow, hail and sleet.
  • rain, snow and sleet were falling
  • The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because the postal authorities clung to the view that the mail had to get through no matter what, mail coaches made heroic efforts to stick to schedule in hailstorms, gales, flash floods, and sleet.
  • Wind and sleeting rain found its way into the tavern as a man stepped in.
  • Are you thinking about whether your toboggan is made of wood or Plexiglas, or whether the snow is deep powder or sleet?
  • You know what it is to lay out on a topsail yard in the thick of it, bucking sleet and snow and frozen canvas till you're ready to just let go and cry like a baby. SIWASH
  • Forecasters said that the blizzards would return to the South tomorrow, with sleet and snow continuing at least until the end of the week. Times, Sunday Times
  • The closing in of the weather, the gloom, the sleet, had all conspired to insulate him. THE LAST RAVEN
  • During the climb weather conditions deteriorated to such an extent that the group and their guides faced snow, sleet and rain showers during the ascent.
  • The precipitation was on that borderline between sleet and just frigid rain.
  • The rain may turn into sleet or snow in northern hills. Times, Sunday Times
  • Every day, several times a day, it rained, hailed, sleeted, and snowed between short bouts of sunshine. Well, THAT Was A Fast Two Weeks--
  • Just before the quarrels sleeted toward them, Kharl raised a shield of hardened air, only long enough to halt the quarrels. Ordermaster
  • The rain may turn into sleet or snow in northern hills. Times, Sunday Times
  • Northern Kentucky is likely to get snow mixed with sleet.
  • More snow, sleet and rain is forecast for much of the country this week. The Sun
  • Kelly gives a grin despite sleet at Legoland in Windsor, England at the Bat Lord's Dragon Castle with a 10' tall Topiary Dragon planted with dragons' foot ivy!
  • The visibility was surprisingly good, given the spray from the sea and the sleet showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the climb weather conditions deteriorated to such an extent that the group and their guides faced snow, sleet and rain showers during the ascent.
  • It flew through torrential rain and sleet and snow showers to arrive just before 8am.
  • Well, it may be raining, it may be sleeting, it may be freezing on the streets of Philadelphia, but that hasn't prevented hundreds from coming out to say they're against this war.
  • A day of blustery weather ushered in 20cm of snow in northern areas and sleet and snow across southern England. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thursday the weather was lousy with snow and sleet showers being forecast and some heavy falls of snow likely.
  • More snow, sleet and rain is forecast for much of the country this week. The Sun
  • Two minutes later, it was sleeting and hailing, we were both soaked to the skin, and we were both bloody miserable.
  • The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rain turns to sleet. Times, Sunday Times
  • We found seats next to the ice station, where our bartender was doing an admirable imitation of Tony Perkins in Psycho, attacking a massive block of ice with a frightful-looking pick and afflicting those in the vicinity with small, sleety squalls. Old-Fashioned
  • Winter storms normally bring ordinary rain, freezing rain and sleet as well as snow.
  • Snow, sleet, driving rain and gale force winds were sweeping across the north west today (Saturday).
  • The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, —these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844
  • Southern England looks set to remain cloudy and rather cold with a wintry mixture of light rain, sleet and some hill snow. Times, Sunday Times
  • The big freeze is set to carry on this week with more cold, snow, sleet and ice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Its broad, plate-glass windows gazed out in silent, impassive tolerance upon the streams of social life that passed it of pleasant afternoons in Spring and Fall -- on sleet-swept nights of winter when 'bus and brougham brought from theatre and opera their little groups and pairs of fur-clad women and high-hatted men. A Fool There Was
  • The glass hit the ground like sleet on a pavement and sparkled like a morning frost.
  • Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest. Times, Sunday Times
  • It rained, sleeted or snowed just about every day. Return of the Model 70

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