SLEET in a Sentence

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For SLEET, below is one of 16 sentences:
In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLEET
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sleet
 n.  a mixture of rain and snow or hail; rain which freezes before reaching the ground
Classic Sentence:
1  But a wet snow, melting to sleet, had fallen in the night and turned the roads to glass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  The fitful bursts of sleet had changed into a steady rain and the horses had heavy work even without a load behind them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  And the convicts had marched out too, to die in the twilight of the Confederacy, to freeze in the snow and sleet of that last campaign in Tennessee.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  She felt that he was a bulwark between her and the darkness that grew thicker as the delayed storm came down in sleet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  Three days later they reached Gopher Prairie in a sleet storm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
7  Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
8  A bitter sleet came rattling against us here on the east wind, and Joe took me on his back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
9  I was often out in cold, rain, and sleet, but nobody took much note of me after I had been out a few times.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
10  In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
12  In the grave, sleet, filth, wet snow--no need to put themselves out for you--'Let her down, Vanuha; it's just like her luck--even here, she is head-foremost, the hussy.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
13  Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  It sleeted the next day, but as the wintry twilight drew on the icy particles stopped falling and a cold wind blew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
Example Sentence:
1  The dress code was layers and layers of clothes and a good pair of boots to withstand snow, wind, rain and sleet.
2  The wind began to build and the sleet to blow about.