sleet
noun
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail).
was sleeting
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past progressiveof sleet.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The temperature was little above freezing and it was sleeting, members of the team said at the time.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023
"I remember one year in Vegas in a collegiate tournament it was sleeting," said Webb Simpson, who played one shot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2013
The crowd laughed for it was sleeting outside and the young guardsmen had no comfortable assignment patrolling the bridges and guarding the factories.
From Time Magazine Archive
And now it was sleeting, the snow already glistening with ice.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Last night it was sleeting just a little, and he had to have a taxi-cab.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
