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.
- 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.