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Potentially dangerous winter weather
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sleet
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sleet is a regionally variant term that refers to two distinct forms of precipitation : Rain and snow mixed , snow that partially melts as it falls (UK, Ireland, and most British Commonwealth countries) Ice pellets , one of three forms of precipitation ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, slete , either from an unrecorded Old English *slete , *slyte , related to Middle High German sloz , Middle Low German sloten (plural) "hail," from Proto-Germanic *slautjan- (cognates: dialectal Norwegian slutr , Danish slud , Swedish sloud "sleet"), ...
Usage examples of sleet.
Now a sleet of bullets hissed through their ranks as they retired, and the gallant Lord Airlie, as modest and brave a soldier as ever drew sword, was struck through the heart.
It had started to rain, an evil sleet running in curtains across the slippery autobahn, and the mesmeric effect of the windshield wipers almost sent him to sleep.
There was sleet that evening, with a whopping wind, but neither this storm nor that other which so imminently threatened him held place in the consciousness of Bibbs Sheridan when he came once more to the presence of Mary.
The Odim clan was gathering in the courtyard, where slaves were still meddling inefficiently with long rods, climbing in and out of the biogas inspection pit, despite the sleet in the air.
Odim clan was gathering in the courtyard, where slaves were still meddling inefficiently with long rods, climbing in and out of the biogas inspection pit, despite the sleet in the air.
Babette shivered under her shawl, and looked more drearily than ever at the lashing sleet.
And with the passing of the sleet, an immense silence secerned to brood over us, as though we had drifted into a vacuum.
Even though it was sleeting, the inside of each small pup tent was dry and comfortable.
No, that would involve a lot of walking around outdoors, and it was still sleeting outside the window.
And now here she was, trying to keep warm in the big, wide scene of the crime, listening to sleet peck at the frosted-over windows and wind slam them around in their uncaulked sockets, trying not to think about Jay and Nicole.
But the gale had not finished, and I was awakened to the rattle of windows and the blatter of sleet on the roof.
Made brittle by constant immersion in lethal ozone baths and high-altitude acid sleets, its fuselage and wings were riddled with pinholes from micrometeorite hits and passage through volcanic dust clouds.
On the Moon, though, the surface is dangerous: big temperature swings between sunlight and shadow, ionizing radiation constantly sleeting in from the Sun and stars, micrometeoroids peppering the ground and sandpapering everything exposed to them.
Then, when the rainstorm turned to sleet, he headed back home and was interested to see firemen on the edge of a lagoon, where they were using a pulmotor on a drowned man.
The March wind was raging beyond the glass, and scattershots of rain and sleet struck the windows before his face.