- 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
Also, aside from anecdotal evidence of short-lived sleeting in the western suburbs, there was no ice, snow or other frozen precipitation.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022
The new commute started in November, a gray, sleeting month that was all the more dreary because the job in Stamford that I had enjoyed for two years had been moved to New York.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2021
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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