ice pellets
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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His eyelids were freezing together, and soon they would be bound shut as ice pellets whipped his face from all directions.
From Literature
“I remember the wind from the propeller. It was like shooting ice pellets at my face. The guy next to me was doing what he could to shield my face, but that’s pretty much all I remember.”
From Los Angeles Times
When he’d opened the door, the ground had been covered in golf-ball-size ice pellets for as far as he could see.
From Literature
The towing — expected among camp residents for more than a week — started just as ice pellets were starting to fall on a raw October day.
From Seattle Times
The embryos grow into soft ice pellets called graupel, says Sonia Lasher-Trapp, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
From Scientific American
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