pelt

Example Sentences

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Coal waited a few seconds, then picked up another handful of gravel and got ready to pelt at the window a second time.

From Literature

A table has been set up for us, and we put out the coyote pelt and the stack of handouts I printed at school.

From Literature

The most viral moment came when Joe Wilkinson was giving a mock-serious speech about the RNLI, only to be pelted with a giant ball of pink paint, for no apparent reason.

From BBC

A man’s voice cut through the rain pelting the pitch-black Caribbean Sea, just audible between two boats tossed around by 10-foot waves.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said he felt "uncomfortable and unsafe" and that the Mosque had been pelted with eggs on one of the protest days.

From BBC