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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sleet.

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Examples

  • Freezing rain and sleets are to blame for a series of crashes, yesterday.

    CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008 2008

  • Meanwhile, that sleets, freezing rain, icy conditions, that could be the situation today.

    CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2007 2007

  • It was hard-scrabble times on the wind-fiery, sand-whirled, desolate prairie plains of far West Texas where having a tree in your yard that gave you protection from the sun and flying sands in the summer and the ice-sharpened winds and blurring sleets in the winter was more precious than diamonds to these nature-hardened people.

    MOM The Daily Growler 2006

  • Describe your typical winter and how often it snows/ices/sleets.

    Sunday Brunch for May 22, 2005 2005

  • Rynst leans forward in his chair, seeming larger-than-life framed in the ancient windows that show the backdrop of heavy gray clouds and rain that sleets across Cyad, almost obscuring the Palace of Eternal Light.

    Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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