The word 'sleet' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a form of precipitation consisting of a mixture of rain and snow or ice pellets. For example: "The ground was coated in a thin layer of sleet after the storm."
Lashed by sleet on the milk-chocolate waters of the Medway estuary, I was frozen, seasick and desperately unimpressed by the view.
Parts of northwest and southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia got snow, while sleet and freezing rain prevailed west and north of Richmond.
In New York, the entire winter has been filled with weather advisories, along with freezing rain, decreased blood circulation, sleet, swipes right, unused gym memberships, compromised public transportation infrastructure, depression, lassitude, lonely gloves, too much binge-watching, opportunistic slush of a certain sentience and the first 2,000 words of novels in various states of abandonment.
A powerful storm system that spread hazardous snow, sleet and freezing rain widely across the midsection of the US rumbled towards the densely populated eastern seaboard on Sunday, promising more of the same.
All-day rain and sleet ensured that Hodgson, last seen playing on a skating rink in Rome, had to ply his trade on a quagmire.
Outside a slate-grey sky is pondering whether to dispense driving sleet or merely torrential rain.
Buses hate us, pedestrians hate us, cabbies hate us, van men hate us, motorbikes hate us, Lord Howarth of Newport hates us, even God hates us, with his wind and sleet and unreasonable, arrogant bloody hills.
The previous day we had been pelted by sleet and hail before knee-deep snow on the final pass forced race organisers to cut the stage short, but now the air was still and the sun hung high in a crystal-clear sky, while me and my shadow got stuck in to a steep off-trail climb to a path some 500 metres above.
Power outages were reported in Virginia, parts of West Virginia, Maryland and the metropolitan Washington area, following freezing rain, wet snow and sleet.
Even worse is sleet or rain, which turns the field into a lake of mud.
Their role is local defence, not law enforcement.This week, in driving sleet, the first force on the ground, 183 men deployed in the picturesque district of Jalrez, were occupying a series of checkpoints.
