Fell as freezing rain

Usage examples of sleeted.

We'd noted the plain had given way to crags, to miles of jumbled bones, to a pit that seemed without bottom, to a lava sea across which sleeted flames and from which rose fumes that made us don our masks before the lungs were corroded within us.

Michael could almost feel the photons as they sleeted through the absurd fragility of the lifedome.

Likewise, the special-weapons units were kept busy interdicting the tactical missiles that sleeted overhead with their cargoes of nuclear death.