sleet
noun
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail).
sleets
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present tense formof sleet (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Now in the hearth he sits and, drowned Among the ashes, blows; Or through the room goes stealing round On cautious-creeping toes, Deep-mantled in the drowsy sound Of night that sleets and snows.
From Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
During the meal he had much to recount of other sleets and their consequences.
From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen
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 Henry Kendall
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 Robert Burns
Now in the hearth he sits and, drowned Among the ashes, blows; Or through the room goes stealing 'round On cautious-stepping toes, Deep mantled in the drowsy sound Of night that sleets and snows.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
