sleet
noun
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail).
is sleeting
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present progressiveof sleet (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And we smile, and mayhap grief is sleeting Its ice upon you and on me.
From Poems: Patriotic, Religious by Abram Joseph Ryan
