sleet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++sleet /sliːt/ noun [uncountable] HEMhalf-frozen rain that falls when it is very cold 冻雨，雨夹雪 scattered sleet and snow showers 零星冻雨和阵雪► see thesaurus at rain —sleet verb [intransitive] It was sleeting so hard we could barely see for 30 yards. 雨夹雪下得那么大，我们几乎看不到30码远。 —sleety adjective
Examples from the Corpus
sleet• I awoke to rain and sleet pounding on the roof, and to the sound of rushing wind.• A tear popped out of one eye, or was it sleet that was still falling?• It was raining again, and so windy and cold that the rain felt like sleet on their faces.• Handfuls of sleet were beginning to wander through the air.• She trembled at the razor-sharp sleet of misery: losing Lucy.• It swirled and howled, driving the sleet and snow towards him alone.• We couldn't see anything because of the sleet and snow.• Outside, the sleet rattled across the windows like handfuls of hurled gravel.sleet nounChinese
falls that it is when Corpus half-frozen rain
sleet
sleet /sliːt/
noun [uncountable]
half-frozen rain that falls when it is very cold:
scattered sleet and snow showers
—sleet verb [intransitive]:
It was sleeting so hard we could barely see for 30 yards.
—sleety adjective
sleet /sliːt/
noun [uncountable]half-frozen rain that falls when it is very cold:
—sleet verb [intransitive]:
—sleety adjective