sleety

Examples

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• Sleety showers in April are pretty normal, but serious snowfall is rare, though not unknown, in the north of the UK.

  Blog text (9)

• A cold, sleety rain was falling that day.

• His first day on the street, a sleety rain was falling.

  Fiction book (1993)

• He and I, it's raining, it's sleety Gray afternoon.

  W Magazine

• I'm sometimes happiest climbing the mountain in a sleety winter storm.

  Chris Williamson

• When I caught a glimpse of Short Papa coming through the backyard that cold, sleety February afternoon, I had a funny feeling it might be the last time he would visit me.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Though the amount of water vapor may be, the net effect could be to coat the fine guidance sensors in ice, like an automobile's windshield on a sleety day, leaving them unable to perform their essential function.

  Academic text (1990)

• I walked out into Manhattan—it was night, January, snowing a grainy, sleety snow, hardly snow at all.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Sleety showers in April are pretty normal, but serious snowfall is rare in the north of the UK.

• The weather was grim and sleety, and she didn't know a soul east of the Atlantic.

Synonyms

W

wintry

vssleety

11 3.5

Cold and bleak with snow or strong wind

is about specific frozen rain rather than general cold or bleak weather

W

wintery

vssleety

2 1.8

Having cold weather with snow and strong wind

is about specific frozen rain rather than general cold season conditions

Antonyms

D

dry

885 1.0

Not wet or without any liquid

C

clear

726 1.0

Free from things that block sight or movement

S

sunny

230 1.0

Bright with sunlight or cheerful and pleasant like sunshine

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology