sleets
- present tense form of sleet (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Spring! with all your searching east winds, with your late, shriveling frosts, with your occasional untimely sleets and snows, you are yet as much better than summer as hope is better than fruition.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
Spare my luve, ye winds that blaw, Plashy sleets and beating rain!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Child of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me, Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of the sea?
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
The heavens have emptied their sleets and snows on his head,—these have made him look only purer, only the more sublime.
From The Choir Invisible by Allen, James Lane
"No; it sleets now and then, and sometimes blows."
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
