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- verb Present participle of
sleet .
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Examples
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The result is that, on this sleeting March morning, the priests outnumber the congregation, with no more than 10 people in the pews.
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It was freezing, sleeting, and the wind was so strong it actually kept threatening to push me over.
"Our blood is gold; nothing to fear." greygirlbeast 2010
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It was freezing, sleeting, and the wind was so strong it actually kept threatening to push me over.
"Our blood is gold; nothing to fear." greygirlbeast 2010
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Inside the beltway, where it's mainly sleeting, the transition to snow should occur over the next hour or so.
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It was sleeting the whole time on the way there and B&Q have a sale on so therefore were heaving busy.
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Never mind that I went down to Zuccotti Park again last Saturday night, October 29 -- in a driving, sleeting rain -- and found much bustle amid good order and spirits that still overwhelmed the jaundiced reports.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011
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After multiple years of being the background narrator of so many cookouts and weekend trips, one could take on a larger-than-life stature as the Provider of Good Memories (the Tigers 'results weren't always all that positive, but "Hey, turn on Ernie" meant that at least it wasn't sleeting -- usually).
Ernie Harwell kept Detroit warm for years Matthew Rennie 2010
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Despite the fact they had no pilots, the drones were heavily armed and they soared down from the sky at the same angle as the sleeting rain, plunging into a dense storm of upward-firing tracers.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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“It started raining and sleeting as we came home from Sunday service on Christmas Eve, and then around midnight it began snowing, and snowing hard, which was really unusual,” Marcos said.
The Christmas Spirit VJoyce Whiteley Hawkes 2010
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Those animals need to be milked whether you're tired or it's sleeting out or not.
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