sleet
He's a detective working cold cases in a New York that can be snowy, sleety and rainy in the same day.
A few flakes of sleety snow were falling from the grey blanket that formed the Christmas sky.
He arrived at Newcastle airport on a grey, sleety day.
a dirtier sleetier snow
Helen found herself walking slowly against a sleety wind and huddled into the duffel coat.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Precipitation: snow & ice
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avalanche
be snowed inidiom
be snowed upidiom
boilerplate
drifting
glacier
hailstorm
iceberg
icy
permafrost
precipitation
sleet
slushy
snow devil
snow line
snowdrift
snowfall
snowflake generation
snowpack

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Wet weather & wetness

Examples of sleety

sleety
Just then, as if on cue, a wet, sleety snow began to fall.
From NPR
Many have from time to time attempted it in vain; some, after almost reaching the summit, have been driven back by thunderbolts or sleety whirlwinds.
From Project Gutenberg
The roads were sleety and skiddy, and required careful driving.
From Project Gutenberg
A sleety dawn was graying at the windows.
From Project Gutenberg
He pushed open the outer door, pulled his electroparka closer around him, and stalked off across the walk, through the lashing of the sleety wind.
From Project Gutenberg
I was a shivering creature who had been caught in a sleety rain and soaked through to the skin.
From Project Gutenberg
Though a drizzly, sleety day, it did not dampen our ardor--nor that of the mosquitos.
From Project Gutenberg
Even the taverns have run couples, and up and down the sleety street horses pranced and panted in search of an idle priest.
From Project Gutenberg
The west wind freshened as the evening came on and dashed fine, sleety rain into their faces.
From Project Gutenberg
I ran up the sleety steps in advance of him, and rang the bell with convulsive energy.
From Project Gutenberg
The final stretch of the journey became a dim and frosty blur of sleety trees.
From Project Gutenberg
The sleety storm drove sharply in my face, rendered doubly sensitive to its rigor by long absence from outward air.
From Project Gutenberg
Five miles in the teeth of a sleety blizzard and every muscle ached with the fight.
From Project Gutenberg
I was miserably depressed in spirits, which the cold, sleety weather that greeted us on emerging from the hot and crowded court considerably increased.
From Project Gutenberg
The sleety rain of lead which greets them rolls the columns up like two red carpets.
From Project Gutenberg
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