Sleet
noun
A type of weather that is a mix of rain and snow.
I forgot my umbrella and got soaked in the sleet.
Often appears as...
- heavy sleet
- cold sleet
verb
To experience sleet weather, or to say that sleet is falling.
The weather started sleeting in the middle of the day.
Often appears as...
- start sleeting
- continue sleeting
noun
A type of weather that is a mix of rain and snow.
I forgot my umbrella and got soaked in the sleet.
Often appears as...
- heavy sleet
- cold sleet
verb
To experience sleet weather, or to say that sleet is falling.
The weather started sleeting in the middle of the day.
Often appears as...
- start sleeting
- continue sleeting
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Description
Sleet suggests unpleasant, cold weather. Understanding its use is key for discussing winter conditions.
The sudden sleet made the drive home treacherous.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Sleet often carries negative connotations, indicating discomfort and inconvenience.
The event was ruined by a sleet storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Weather
Sleet usually occurs in late autumn or winter. Recognize it to discuss seasonal weather patterns.
Each November, we prepare for potential sleet.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Description
Sleet suggests unpleasant, cold weather. Understanding its use is key for discussing winter conditions.
The sudden sleet made the drive home treacherous.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Sleet often carries negative connotations, indicating discomfort and inconvenience.
The event was ruined by a sleet storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Weather
Sleet usually occurs in late autumn or winter. Recognize it to discuss seasonal weather patterns.
Each November, we prepare for potential sleet.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Description
Sleet suggests unpleasant, cold weather. Understanding its use is key for discussing winter conditions.
The sudden sleet made the drive home treacherous.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Sleet often carries negative connotations, indicating discomfort and inconvenience.
The event was ruined by a sleet storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Weather
Sleet usually occurs in late autumn or winter. Recognize it to discuss seasonal weather patterns.
Each November, we prepare for potential sleet.
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Four Seasons in a Day PIPE...
every everyone you come across down there says that you know you can see four seasons in a day and it is absolutely true you don't really know quite how to prepare when you go out in the morning I mean it can be a sunny day but you know you never forget at least four layers in case you know sleet storm unleashes out of nowhere and the wind of course down there is you know a huge
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The most powerful woman...
he brought us granola, and he brought us tissue. And we needed tissue because we had just walked through a nor'easter; it was 29 degrees, it was sleeting on our faces. Our sneakers and our socks were frozen and wet and frozen again. We needed that tissue more than he could have possibly understood. So on that day, in that moment,
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Sylvia Earle: How to...
mostly by microbes. The ocean drives climate and weather, stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry. Water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the seas as rain, sleet and snow, and provides home for about 97 percent of life in the world,
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What Happens When an...
operating astronaut it was just the enemy everything between this and teeny-weeny we can't see it we don't know where it is so it's a sleet a sleet of very fast-moving stuff with closing speeds of maybe um you know one to two miles per second
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TED Prize wish: Protect...
climate and weather stabilizes temperature shapes Earth's chemistry water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the sea is rain sleet and snow and provides home for about 97% of life in the world maybe in
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National Geographic...
It started sleeting on those same aspen trees. I think we were probably the only people in the wilderness in this time in February. We had to do what's called this all terrain skiing which is sort of a hybrid
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Exploring Google Earth PIPE...
camera what we call icons you can click on these and pictures come up with stories of different people in the area this is a family that sleet that fled Darfur into eastern Chad you see here
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Safari Live - Day 230 PIPE...
for us well we are still with the beautiful honey badger and yes well as sleet in the head and as we all should well know and how it is disturbing to see but some reptiles when they are dead
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Alone on the Ice: The...
an hour winds for a few hours it's rough i love this photo of a bunch of penguins right after a blasting sleet storm the poor guy on the left doesn't know what hit him and the others
Video examples
Overview PIPE Exploring...
climate and weather regulates stabilizes temperature shapes Earth's chemistry water evaporates from the surface of the sea forms clouds the return water to land Nancy his rain sleet
Video examples
Four Seasons in a Day PIPE...
every everyone you come across down there says that you know you can see four seasons in a day and it is absolutely true you don't really know quite how to prepare when you go out in the morning I mean it can be a sunny day but you know you never forget at least four layers in case you know sleet storm unleashes out of nowhere and the wind of course down there is you know a huge
Video examples
The most powerful woman...
he brought us granola, and he brought us tissue. And we needed tissue because we had just walked through a nor'easter; it was 29 degrees, it was sleeting on our faces. Our sneakers and our socks were frozen and wet and frozen again. We needed that tissue more than he could have possibly understood. So on that day, in that moment,
Video examples
Sylvia Earle: How to...
mostly by microbes. The ocean drives climate and weather, stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry. Water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the seas as rain, sleet and snow, and provides home for about 97 percent of life in the world,
Video examples
What Happens When an...
operating astronaut it was just the enemy everything between this and teeny-weeny we can't see it we don't know where it is so it's a sleet a sleet of very fast-moving stuff with closing speeds of maybe um you know one to two miles per second
Video examples
TED Prize wish: Protect...
climate and weather stabilizes temperature shapes Earth's chemistry water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the sea is rain sleet and snow and provides home for about 97% of life in the world maybe in
Video examples
National Geographic...
It started sleeting on those same aspen trees. I think we were probably the only people in the wilderness in this time in February. We had to do what's called this all terrain skiing which is sort of a hybrid
Video examples
Exploring Google Earth PIPE...
camera what we call icons you can click on these and pictures come up with stories of different people in the area this is a family that sleet that fled Darfur into eastern Chad you see here
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 230 PIPE...
for us well we are still with the beautiful honey badger and yes well as sleet in the head and as we all should well know and how it is disturbing to see but some reptiles when they are dead
Video examples
Alone on the Ice: The...
an hour winds for a few hours it's rough i love this photo of a bunch of penguins right after a blasting sleet storm the poor guy on the left doesn't know what hit him and the others
Video examples
Overview PIPE Exploring...
climate and weather regulates stabilizes temperature shapes Earth's chemistry water evaporates from the surface of the sea forms clouds the return water to land Nancy his rain sleet
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Quote examples
Jeff Lowe
American Athlete
More than five decades of hands grated by cracks. Whole body aching from long days of big-wall hauling. Tiny tents, bivy sacs, snow caves lashed by hurricane sleet. Frozen fingers and toes. Migraines and altitude malaise. Not knowing what's to come. It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.
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Ellie Kemper
American Actress
What's shocking to me is seeing people walking around with green juices in their hand when the weather's bad in New York. I couldn't think of anything more awful to have when it's sleeting outside. Like, 'Oh, I'm craving some liquified kale right now.
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Fat Joe
American Musician
I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
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Dean Karnazes
American Athlete
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.
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Joel Silver
American Producer
There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.
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Peyton Hillis
American Athlete
Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.
Quote examples
Jeff Lowe
American Athlete
More than five decades of hands grated by cracks. Whole body aching from long days of big-wall hauling. Tiny tents, bivy sacs, snow caves lashed by hurricane sleet. Frozen fingers and toes. Migraines and altitude malaise. Not knowing what's to come. It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.
Quote examples
Ellie Kemper
American Actress
What's shocking to me is seeing people walking around with green juices in their hand when the weather's bad in New York. I couldn't think of anything more awful to have when it's sleeting outside. Like, 'Oh, I'm craving some liquified kale right now.
Quote examples
Fat Joe
American Musician
I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
Quote examples
Dean Karnazes
American Athlete
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.
Quote examples
Joel Silver
American Producer
There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.
Quote examples
Peyton Hillis
American Athlete
Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.
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