- present participle of sleet.
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
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