pelting

How To Use pelting In A Sentence

• When they look around to see who's been pelting them with spitballs, you'll just be casually checking the time.
• Came dark, overcast days, stiff, driving winds and Pelting rains, day on day, without end, and the city folk cowered in their dwelling-places like flood-beset rats; and like rats, half-drowned and gasping, when the weather cleared they crawled out and up the green Piedmont slopes to bask in the blessed sunshine. The Golden Poppy
• Police say he is responsible for pushing dog mess through letterboxes, smashing windows, damaging cars, pelting people with eggs and assaulting other youngsters.
• Shepherds was pelting through the gloaming their sheep and goats.
• When they were safely on the shadowed side of the ridge, they began mercilessly pelting the animal with thrown stone, forcing it first to retreat to the edge of the outcropping, and then reluctantly to break cover and lumber off into the blinding afternoon sun. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
• Her friend kept pelting her with balled-up bits of paper to try and wake her up, but it wasn't happening.
• There was a roll of thunder , and the rain started pelting down.
• That insane bellow, practically in my ear, sent every naked, raw nerve ending in my body pelting for cover.
• o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
• My father raced past me, and I followed, pelting up the dock to where my mother had dived into the river.