Example Sentences

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It sleeted all morning, but the sun came out for the march.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2017

“You’re being rained on and snowed on and sleeted on all day long. It makes for misery.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2014

Sweated, froze, got sleeted on, rained on, snowed on, and never saw a deer.

From Time Magazine Archive

February froze, thawed, snowed and sleeted itself off the calendar, and March set in like a roaring lion, with a worse snowstorm than even the Snow Moon had produced.

From The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

For the four days during which we were detained at this station it rained, sleeted, and snowed alternately and unceasingly.

From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Booth, Robert B.