sleety

[ UK /slˈiːti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain
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How To Use sleety In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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)
  • It's a sleety, unprepossessing kind of day and nobody's out unless they have to be.
  • 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
  • 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
  • When we got out of the car it was blowing an icy, sleety gale.
  • 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
  • We hurried churchward under heavy sleety-looking clouds. Times, Sunday Times
  • The battle, launched at 05.30 on a sleety morning, began very well.
  • 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
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