Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of sleet; characterized by sleet.
Wiktionary
- adj. Covered in sleet; full of sleet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain
Etymologies
- sleet + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We got outside in this kind of sleety cold day, and we sent back in and asked him if he would go a certain Saturday which would have been about ten days off.”
“It's rainy, sleety, and about 35 degrees in University Park, MD. Posted by:”
“We found seats next to the ice station, where our bartender was doing an admirable imitation of Tony Perkins in Psycho, attacking a massive block of ice with a frightful-looking pick and afflicting those in the vicinity with small, sleety squalls.”
“This was not so bad today -- brutal cold but sunny -- as it was for Christmas -- brutal cold plus drizzling sleety rain -- and the reward is that the chill waiting eventually leads to denoument in a snug baked good shop rich with the smells of bread and yeast and sugar, and the warmth of the ovens in the back.”
“On the day the fourth quarter financial report for Hi-T was finished, on a sleety Tuesday in January, Elaine Eisenway did her customary and thorough final review, then logged off and wrote down the password on a slip of paper.”
“This time it was February instead of August, with a sleety sky and the promise of flurries in the forecast for the afternoon, and six inches of snow overnight.”
“We barely managed to get our waterproofs on before it turned to heavy, sleety rain but we were no distance at all from Kirkton of Glenisla where my ever-patient sister and Elli were waiting in the car with IrnBru32, coffee and picnic.”
“Just then, as if on cue, a wet, sleety snow began to fall.”
“It's rainy, sleety, and about 35 degrees in University Park, MD.”
“Not this horrible drizzly sleety stuff that just makes everything wet and annoying.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sleety’.
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Russian Doll Words
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Wild Weather
anabatic wind, stratiform, fractostratus, frazil slush, isodrosotherm, mammatus clouds, macroburst, nimbostratus, ribbon lightning, staccato lightning, subtropical jet, suction vortex and 76 more...
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