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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Consisting of sleet; characterized by sleet.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Covered in sleet; full of sleet.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

    Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

  • “It's rainy, sleety, and about 35 degrees in University Park, MD. Posted by:”

    et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day

  • “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.”

    Old-Fashioned

  • “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.”

    February 25th, 2009

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: VELOCITY

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: Fly Away Home

  • “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.”

    Cateran recce runs #2

  • “Just then, as if on cue, a wet, sleety snow began to fall.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Dirty Life

  • “It's rainy, sleety, and about 35 degrees in University Park, MD.”

    et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day

  • “Not this horrible drizzly sleety stuff that just makes everything wet and annoying.”

    Five things about my day: Monday 16/2/2009

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