Example Sentences

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It was one of those lousy late-fall New York evenings, cold and dark and sort of half raining and half sleeting.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

The temperature was little above freezing and it was sleeting, members of the team said at the time.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

He added, “Go to a gas station in the middle of the winter, when it’s sleeting, and ask yourself how convenient it is.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2018

“It was raining, sleeting and snowing and I was out getting feed,” he said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2015

And now it was sleeting, the snow already glistening with ice.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer