How To Use Sleety In A Sentence
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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
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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)
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It's a sleety, unprepossessing kind of day and nobody's out unless they have to be.
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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
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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
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When we got out of the car it was blowing an icy, sleety gale.
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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
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We hurried churchward under heavy sleety-looking clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The battle, launched at 05.30 on a sleety morning, began very well.
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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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The next morning everybody began to call the chiff-chaff names, and to say it was a little cheat; for a sharp sleety rain had been falling for hours and freezing as it fell, so that all the rooks 'claws were stuck fast to the tall, top branches of the limes.
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
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By now the snow is easing off and has turned into a sort of swirling sleety rain.
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It will warm up after Tuesday but we should expect more sleety showers coming in from the Atlantic.
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This was not so bad today -- brutal cold but sunny -- as it was for Christmas -- brutal cold plus drizzling sleety rain -- and the reward is that the chill waiting eventually leads to denoument in a snug baked good shop rich with the smells of bread and yeast and sugar, and the warmth of the ovens in the back.
February 25th, 2009
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It's rainy, sleety, and about 35 degrees in University Park, MD. Posted by:
Et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day