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Sentence Examples Twenty four hours ago I was complaining about the sleet, snow, and freezing temperatures. Then the sleet turned to snow, and it was gently floating in the air and rushing towards us as we drove into it. Showers, sometimes of sleet or snow will not be uncommon when the wind is in the north or north-west. Precipitation occurs in a variety of forms, including fog, drizzle, rain, sleet, hail, and snow. Rain, hail, sleet or snow, the game will continue and no overs will be lost. Outside, a woman walked along the wet lamp-lit sidewalk through the sleet and snow. The warmth and pleasantness of the riviera always comes as a delightful contrast to the sleet and snow of the preceding five days. The game almost descended into farce with the sleet making any meaningful rugby impossible. The precipitation was on that borderline between sleet and just frigid rain. The bad conditions were caused when the snow, sleet and rain which fell yesterday froze later in the evening. We had sunshine, rain, hail and sleet and incredibly strong winds throughout the day. It never snowed in Austin, but that morning there was definitely sleet on the ground. Elongated strips of icicles dangled from the sides of the shed ceiling, and a thin film of sleet enveloped everything else. The wetness turned to rain, then to sleet, and then to a nasty, slushy snow, blowing into my face no matter which direction I took. The mingled rain and sleet fell unpityingly from above, while the ground beneath was covered with mud and water. He brought a strong, unstudied and remarkably fresh kind of romanticism to veils of darkness as well as sheets of summer rain or winter sleet. I'm driving home in the miserable sleet, and the tune comes braying from my radio. Full marks to the players who braved the snow, sleet and freezing conditions to serve up a fast spirited game. Health drinks are for soft southerners who don't understand the bitter evils of driving Glaswegian sleet from October till March. As the warm air rises the water vapor in it condenses into clouds that can produce rain, snow, sleet or freezing rain, often all four. Show More Sentences Our weather is very mixed today with odd glimpses of sun striking through racing clouds which keep delivering squalls of rain, sleet and hail. As they reached the summit, an icy northerly wind began to blow sleet into their faces. What had started as a mild wind and light rain ended by morning as a howling northerly and sleet and snow. Its pure white heart of snow often is hardened into grey and traitorous sleet. Oh, how we'll laugh about this in November, when we're shivering in sub-zero temperatures and walking through freezing sleet. The bad weather started a little after noon yesterday, a steady patter of sleet that lasted for hours, but didn't accumulate. The sleet stung our faces and made the rigging icy and slippery, the yards were swaying back and forth with the roll of the ship. I trudge through sleet on icy sidewalks to look at equally slippery art shows. Their immaculate feathers impervious to sleet and rain, a pair of white-capped albatross engage in affectionate courtship rituals. It had been raining, and with the cold that night the rain had frozen into sleet on the road. After mid-morning, things turned to a wintery mix of freezing rain and sleet. Inclement weather, which included snow, sleet, and freezing rain, and poor track conditions were cited as the reasons for cancellation. Thick clouds were gathering, heralding the approach of freezing rain and sleet. The glass hit the ground like sleet on a pavement and sparkled like a morning frost. Are you thinking about whether your toboggan is made of wood or Plexiglas, or whether the snow is deep powder or sleet? More significantly, I ceased to notice the rain, the sleet and the force-10 gale. The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end. Graupel is a wonderful form of precipitation. It is not snow, not hail, not sleet, and definitely not rain. We woke under dull, drear skies, with a steadily increasing wind accompanied by blasts of sleet as the day wore on. In York rain and sleet driven by gale force winds caught many workers on their way home the previous evening. Show More Sentences He frowned as he stared out the window at the sleet driving against the window pane. Snow, sleet, driving rain and gale force winds were sweeping across the north west today. A hard frost is forecast tonight, while more snow and sleet is on the way tomorrow and Friday. The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc. Winter storms normally bring ordinary rain, freezing rain and sleet as well as snow. But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet. A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet. Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung. We did cliff top walks in horizontal sleet and a tandem ride down to the sea. She just hoped they would arrive before the ever-darkening clouds let loose with a soaking rain, sleet, or snow. The photo is slightly murky because of the sleet sheeting down from the sky and the fact that I'm trying to keep my arm from blowing off. As night fell, the wind began to howl and snow and sleet battered the bateaux wherein Washington's amphibious force sat, prepared to fight. It flew through torrential rain and sleet and snow showers to arrive just before 8am. Yesterday, however, sleet began to fall about the middle of the afternoon and continued through the night. Thursday the weather was lousy with snow and sleet showers being forecast and some heavy falls of snow likely. There will be good sunshine tomorrow but also a few hail, sleet or snow showers. It was very cold with light snow showers, sleet and rain, but the pitch, despite being heavy, was in remarkably good condition. Biting winds, heavy rain, sleet showers and muddy underfoot conditions conspired to make life extremely difficult for the players. The lower-lying southern part of the country was also expected to be affected by sleet and snow showers. A great time was had by all despite the sleet, hail, snow, rain, wind, blisters, and aching knees. Show More Sentences My lesson was inside, because the outdoor arena was too mucky from the sleet. Staring out the glass doors I saw that the sleet was, now, a curtain of snow. Eric headed home alone, I needed time to think, the sleet had turned to rain, but I didn't mind being wet. So far the team have had to put up with rain, sleet and snow but are confident they will finish the challenge. Be prepared to fish in hostile conditions of rain, sleet and snow with a chill wind biting your flesh, and with weed clogging your line. I'm bracing up for the sleet that is coming our way this afternoon. He saw the shafts sleet down across the fort, and his heart rejoiced, for surely nothing could live under the merciless beating of that steel-pointed blizzard! He climbed back onto his horse, feeling the sleet come down on him again. Through sleet and rain, through 25 cm of April snow, through the buzz of locusts, we turn to these weather prognosticators for harbingers of better times. Slumping back in his seat, the head of Sleet house let out a quiet sigh as he watched his false friends retreat from the table. I loved the howling winds and horizontal sleet, especially once I'd reached the Station Hotel in Prahran when they made their own overproof beers. She sat up in bed, looking out her window at the sleet pouring down it. Forecasters said the milder weather should be on the way for the weekend, with snow showers probably turning to sleet and sunny spells across the region by tomorrow. The wind howls through them, stinging them with sleet and ice. Such is the month of April, but be sure not to miss out between those squally showers of rain and sleet if a warmer spell arrives, no matter how brief. Tomorrow's forecast is for a cold, windy day with some risk of sleet and hail showers, although the worst effects of the storm will have passed by 6am. During the climb weather conditions deteriorated to such an extent that the group and their guides faced snow, sleet and rain showers during the ascent. In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword. The ATR-72 had been in a holding pattern, flying through sleet that caused a build-up of ice on the wings. You have to have a real commitment to do that in rain, sleet and snow. Show More Sentences The wipers went to work, pushing the sleet and snow from the windshield. They slip and fall all over the place as the sleet is piling up. I shall round up the kids and fight against the harsh wintery gale sending sleet and icicles down our backs as we trudge eleventy hundred miles home again. However, if rain, sleet or snow are on the weather menu, who knows? Through the wind whistling and the sleet pounding on the cobblestones, the old priest made his way to the place where Caryl was lying exhausted after the hours of childbirth. Temperatures rose overnight and the snow was replaced by sleet and rain. I was right, but I was wrong about what the sleet was foreshadowing. It starts to sleet and the judge, Papa, and Grandpa want to turn back. Many people do not understand the difference between sleet and freezing rain. Northerly weather can bring cold conditions with snow and sleet in the winter, and cool, showery rain in the summer, particularly along the Eastern edge of Britain. Later, men soaked in sleet walked along the Garden Ring, oblivious to the weather and glowing with happy smiles. Such weather phenomena as fog, clouds, rain, falling snow, and sleet that block visible light are usually transparent to radio waves. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, graupel and hail. Ice pellets or sleet are a form of precipitation consisting of small, translucent balls of ice. Frozen forms of precipitation include snow, ice needles, sleet, hail, and graupel. As we were driving home, large spludgy balls of sleet drummed against the roof of the car. We had to wait a while before getting out. Parts of the North West experienced a White Christmas in 2009, and again in 2010, where sleet and snow fell on 25 December. Great Lakes on Friday and threatened New England after blanketing states from Minnesota to Ohio with blinding snow, sleet and freezing rain. At the same time sleet and hail were driving with all fury against us. The Drive Thru Weather Protector helps to reduce the chances of potential illness or other physical issues stemming from prolonged exposure to snow, sleet, or rain. Show More Sentences A heavy sleet is falling through the pines, but Lytton Musselman, a biologist at Old Dominion University, is oblivious as he races about with childlike glee. Sleet showers continued until we reached the cheapstead of Akureyri, at the south end of the fjord. Translated into English nearly sixty years after the author's suicide, Sleet is a collection of short works by Swedish literary wunderkind Stig Dagerman. Examples from Classical Literature Ordered back to Murfreesboro, and march thither in a storm of snow and sleet. All winter it has kept the green, when ground pine lay snowbound and spruces sagged with sleet. But in spite of snow and sleet we filled our days to the brim. Night-marching in sleet and wind is not for chits of seventeen. There was snow, or sleet, or rain almost every day for weeks, changing only for keen driving winds or sharp frosts. The storm passed over, covering the glacis with snow and sleet. The drover, the sailor, buffets it all day, and his health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June. A gust of wind and sleet rushed through the opening and stung their faces. As she spoke, the first drops of a cold sleet rattled on the skylight. Then the sleet came pouring down and shut everything from sight. The weather had been stormy, with frequent showers of sleet and snow. From all quarters come complaints of the unusual prevalence of sleet at the higher levels. There were rain and sleet and snow and every sort of moisture, lying in wait to abduct it. A bitter sleet came rattling against us here on the east wind, and Joe took me on his back. We were again upon the melancholy road by which we had come, tearing up the miry sleet and thawing snow as if they were torn up by a waterwheel. The wind and the sleet caused a stampede at the picket line. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. One must have a silk veil, to protect his face from snow, sleet, hail and gale, and colored goggles to protect his eyes from that dangerous enemy, snow-blindness. The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist. Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sleet? Words that rhyme with sleet What is the past tense of sleet? What is the plural of sleet? What is the adjective for sleet? What is the noun for sleet? Translations for sleet Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sleepyheads sleepyhead sleepy sleep well sleepwear sleepwalks sleeted Sleeth sleeting sleety sleeve sleeved 5-letter Words Starting With s sl sle slee