How To Use Pelting In A Sentence
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When they look around to see who's been pelting them with spitballs, you'll just be casually checking the time.
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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
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Police say he is responsible for pushing dog mess through letterboxes, smashing windows, damaging cars, pelting people with eggs and assaulting other youngsters.
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Shepherds was pelting through the gloaming their sheep and goats.
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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.
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Her friend kept pelting her with balled-up bits of paper to try and wake her up, but it wasn't happening.
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There was a roll of thunder , and the rain started pelting down.
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That insane bellow, practically in my ear, sent every naked, raw nerve ending in my body pelting for cover.
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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
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My father raced past me, and I followed, pelting up the dock to where my mother had dived into the river.
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Rain was pelting down and small puffs of steam were visible from everyone's mouth.
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He'd been left out of the reindeer games for so long, and now here Dad was, pelting him with missiles.
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She takes a step towards the edge, a branching fork of lightning flaring across the sky behind her, rain pelting her face but failing to muss her hair.
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Other acts have included a helicopter dangling a cheeseburger in front of him, people whacking him with golf balls and drunken revelers pelting him with eggs.
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A boat from the killer fleet had struck the reef out past the skerries and was being pounded to pieces by the pelting waves.
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As she was watching the rain pelting down, Calphurnia came in clad in a long, white, flowing nightgown.
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Catapults pelting fireballs were used with little effect.
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“Poet-baiting” became a popular pastime in Dundee, but McGonagall seemed oblivious to the general opinion of his poems, even when his audience were pelting him with eggs and vegetables.
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The climb would be difficult as the rain was pelting down constantly.
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Witnesses said US troops riding in jeeps and armoured vehicles opened fire after children in the crowd started pelting them with shoes and stones.
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Hurricane Bill pelting Bermuda was strong bands of rain . Some roads are already flooded out.
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Witnesses said US troops riding in jeeps and armoured vehicles opened fire after children in the crowd started pelting them with shoes and stones.
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The pelting water bothers them, so they migrate to the dried fruit peel in the trashcan.
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He glanced over his shoulder, and his stomach lurched; a cavalcade of masked men was pelting down the track.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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The next time we performed these kids were pelting us with packets of cookies.
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A shower of heavy rainfall was pelting on the roof of my house.
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Pelting someone with shoes is considered a grave insult in the Arab world.
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On May 7, 1849, an unruly mob hissed and interrupted the Macready's performance including pelting the poor actor with rotten eggs, potatoes, old shoes and a bottle of liquid which may have been something called asafetida, which stank.
Archive 2007-08-01
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He's reciting Shakespeare in a talent show but he can't seem to get his lines out - because the gang's pelting him with pea-shooters!
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From the dark geometrical precision of its bridge, Ghyll Beck lopes downhill in long slants of water pelting spindrift spray and flooding, pure white, across the wide flat stones at the base of the waterfall.
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In the midst of pelting rain, which half-blinded him, swinging from side to side like a rapid and erratic pendulum, his torn hands paining him severely and his lungs panting from his exertions and panting from the very air which the wind sometimes blew into his mouth with strangling force, he finally arrived at the empty car.
The Banks of the Sacramento
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The moon lacks the shield provided by even a thin planetary atmosphere, such as Mars, so lunar explorers will have to withstand the relentless bombardment of harmful solar radiation and pelting rain of micrometeoroids.
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Rain was pelting down and small puffs of steam were visible from everyone's mouth.
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The blacksmith was pelting away at the hot iron.
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The area is deathly quiet, except for the sound of pelting rain and the soft voice of our guide, calmly and precisely detailing acts of barbaric savagery which still beggar the imagination.
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Three huge dogs came pelting into the street.
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a pelting of insults
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The people in the audience, who usually spend halftime ignoring us or pelting us with peanuts, were hushed as they tried to figure out what we were writing.
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A sheltered gorge thinly wooded with fir-trees opens before us; the long impending rain begins again, hard and fast; and the path becoming soon too steep for riding, we have to dismount and walk in a pelting storm down a steep mountain-side to Santa Maria Gardena, which is the first hamlet at the head of the Grödner Thal.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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Above me, the sky was grey and overcast, the rain pelting down upon the rocky mountainside in steady sheets, running down to feed the rivers and lakes.
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Suddenly Zach came pelting through the hallway, shoving people out of the way until he accidentally ran into me, bowling me over.
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As it was a moonless night visibility on the strait was non-existent, though the pelting rain had eased somewhat.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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It's snowing like mad right now, huge fluffy flakes pelting down.
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The hailstorm is pelting against the roof.
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Now before the farmers start pelting me with corn awareness pamphlets, let me say that there's probably nothing wrong with corn syrup sweeteners per se.
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Others set up massive ballistae some distance from the defenders, and began pelting them with heavy bolts of solid iron.
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During the past few months the city papers have referred to St. Vincent as the leprosy town, Hallock was referred to as the pauper district; we have been advertised as the refuge of tramps and quarantined on account of glanders*; but last of all and worst of all Bro, W-- --- has commenced pelting us with poetry, and SUCH poetry!
"...Leprosy Town..."
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Everyone else took pride in pelting them with recyclable plastic.
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Pelting waist, wining, wukking up, movementations all are rhythmic gyrations of the waist popular in West Indian dance.
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In this novel the sky is always leaden grey, the light is smoky, the rain is pelting the windows and it is cold.
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But for the exertions of the police in extinguishing the flames, made while the mob were pelting them with missiles, all the factory hands would have perished.
Foreign and Colonial News
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When it was a kitten some young Plymborough roughs had hurled it into the little river, and were making of it what they termed a "cockshy," pelting it with stones, fortunately ineffectually, and trying to beat it under water, when the Doctor's footman, who was crossing the bridge, saw what was going on and made an unexpected charge upon the young ruffians, effectually scattering them.
Glyn Severn's Schooldays
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Already, scores of mercenaries were surrounding the camp, pelting it with flaming arrows and a whole assortment of javelins and throwing spears.
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I chanced a second look and was rewarded with even more shots pelting my position dangerously close to my face.
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We reached the Lofuko yesterday in a pelting rain; not knowing that the camp with huts was near, I stopped and put on a bernouse, got wet, and had no dry clothes.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
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We came out on the turnpike some hundred yards on the Liphook side of the buildings called the Hut; so that we had the whole of three miles of hill to come down at not much better than a foot pace, with a good pelting rain at our backs.
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Taking little heed of the pelting shower the "omadhaun," who wears a red bandanna like a shawl, and waves a formidable shillelagh, makes a harangue which, so far as I can understand it, has neither head nor tail.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope studied a nearby bright star called Eta Corvi, which is located approximately 60 light-years away in the northern sky, and found signs that comets could be pelting the alien system.
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She suddenly came pelting in, colliding with her.
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The rest of the trek passed by in a blur as we footslogged through mud and pelting rain and crossed the small streams flowing between the rocks.
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Stardust drove through the rain at a blinding speed, the rain pelting off Kristine's face, stinging her cheeks.
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Fans inside the Arena had started pelting each other with plastic beer glasses and bottles, and the concert was temporarily halted.
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A small figure in a long-tailed leather jacket came pelting down the steps.
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In an explosion that left me temporarily deaf, the cannon stopped pelting us with energy and began hailing us with pieces of its debris instead.
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The astonished defenders recovered in a few moments and began pelting the attackers with arrows and bolts once again.
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Later in the night as I dropped off to sleep, I could hear more rain pelting down on the verandah, and I grumbled to myself about the washing that had been on the line since Wednesday.
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He placed it on the floor, opened up a package containing assorted jingle balls, rolled one across the floor, and grinned as the little ball of energy went pelting after in hot pursuit.
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They shook Milt's left hand and, with snowflakes pelting their faces, they launched into the restless swells.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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A boat from the killer fleet had struck the reef out past the skerries and was being pounded to pieces by the pelting waves.
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A loud clap of thunder sounded and rain could be heard pelting against the roof.
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Then the rain came pelting down sending everyone running for the nearest bus shelter or shop doorway.
