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Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun will pelt the audience with references to other touchstones as the movie proceeds, including the slasher “Sleepaway Camp” and the David Lynch masterpiece “Mulholland Drive.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Japan's yukigassen federation emphasises the "mental challenge" posed by the game, in which players on both teams pelt their opponents while taking cover behind shelters.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

By aiming above a wall, they could pelt the town behind it with beehives, scorpions, snakes, flaming pitch, rotten vermin, or excrement.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

"I was going full pelt and not getting anywhere."

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025

Five pieces of copper for a screecher pelt!

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain 400 years ago for their meat, furry water-resistant pelts and a substance they secrete called castoreum - used in food, medicine and perfume.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

While there's little direct evidence of such garments, there is indirect evidence in the form of bone needles and the bones of fur-bearers whose pelts were used in the garments.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

The setting for this mystery is ingeniously established with a picture frame enclosing the image of a gloomy mansion as lightning flashes in the evening sky and rain pelts noisily down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

Human hunting of wildcats—for pelts and because they were seen as vermin—in Great Britain in medieval times eventually drove the animals up into the remote highlands of Scotland.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 6, 2023

We make a bed of pelts, strip off his layers of weapons, and help him onto his back.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

We pelted experts with questions big and small about how to survive and even thrive—with one caveat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

‘They threw tomatoes’ ”—a reference to a scene in the ad in which she is pelted with the fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

The funniest moment comes when quarterback Dak Prescott enters the room and immediately gets pelted by paper cups as his teammates shout, “Tylers only!”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

But his small group was quickly overwhelmed—and pelted with water balloons.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2026

Heavy black clouds battled lightning in the churning sky and pelted us with leaden raindrops.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

A few weeks later in a town park, a woman began pelting my family with paper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Fans began pelting the ring with garbage as Hogan announced the formation of the New World Order.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

The weather had improved in the hour or so before kick-off but it's pelting down again now.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024

Two years later, a shop selling musical instruments opened in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, her hometown, and An became a fixture there, pelting the owner with questions.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

Gwenforte sprinted out ahead, lost them, turned around and came pelting back, and, when she found them, sprinted off ahead again.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz