sleet
IPA: sɫˈit
noun
- (chiefly US) Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, New England) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
- (rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
- (firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
verb
- (impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
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Examples of "sleet" in Sentences
- Snow and sleet is common during the winter.
- The droplets then fall to earth as rain, snow, or sleet.
- The weather was cold and later changed to sleet and snow.
- The cloud top is where the snow, rain and sleet come from.
- The earliest recorded occurrence of snow or sleet occurred in 1774.
- Rain, sleet and snow travelled northwards throughout the early hours.
- The clouds are low and solid, and the blowing sleet is almost horizontal.
- There had been a deep snow and sleet on the ground for a week or ten days.
- The latest in the season that snow or sleet has fallen was on April 8, 2007.
- A harsh winter would batter the emigrants with flash floods, sleet, and snow.
- As the air's temperature dropped, the rain changed to sleet, and then it snowed.
- A warmer temperature had thawed off the thin sleet, and the pavements were drying.
- And of course around here it is never just snow; it is ice and sleet, which is a lot worse than snow -- unless you are in a full blown blizzard.
- Once friends and I rode 27 miles in sleet to a drop camp, only to find that a bear had raided it: The tent was down, poles were scattered, ropes broken.
- Don't have time to comment, going to give some serious tips how to stay warm like ATV and snowmobiling at 30 below or a 110 above, rain sleet or snow you can do it!
- The word sleet, in the chorus, seems to be corrupted from selt or salt; a quantity of which, in compliance with a popular superstition, is frequently placed on the breast of a corpse.
- The hill-people in the country of Lampong speak indeed of a peculiar kind of rain that falls there, which some have supposed to be what we call sleet; but the fact is not sufficiently established.
- No sleet is keeping me away from the new Goodburger loation on 45th btw. 5+6th, which is now certified officially open (Eater take notice …) No more trekking north to the 50s or east to 3rd Ave, the heart of Midtown Lunch’ing finally has its very own overpriced burger place.
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