Sleety (Adjective)
Meaning
Consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The road conditions were hazardous due to the sleety mixture on the asphalt.
- As I drove through the mountain pass, I encountered a stretch of road where the sleety weather had made driving conditions treacherous.
- She walked slowly through the park, trying to avoid slipping on the sleety path that wound through the gardens.
- During the long winter commute, I encountered numerous delays due to sleety weather, which seemed to come from nowhere and made roads extremely slippery.
- Freezing rain caused sleety accumulations overnight, prompting a flood watch to be issued by the weather service for areas where local creeks had become swollen with excess water.