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

Add that on this particular black Sunday night it was sleeting dismally outside, and James had already a bit of a cough, and we shall see that he did right to stay at home.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)