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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

Are those opposing coaches looking for their Carson Palmer pelt on the wall?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

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

He, too, was facing the sunset, his pelt the color of a new penny.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Denmark is one of the few European countries to still produce mink fur, one of the more common pelts used in making fur garments.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Here, rampaging around in heavy pelts that double their girth, they’re clearly having a blast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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 costumes of the cachaceros, representing Africans, are phantasmagoric confections of old jaguar pelts, caiman skulls and peccary teeth.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

The rest were wading into the water, tossing the pelts into a boat.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

In Berlin, a protest that was not organised by the "GenZ regelt!" movement took place in the evening, with police reporting they were pelted with eggs and bottles.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

In the show’s version of King’s infamous shower scene, where Carrie reacts to her first period with hysteria and gets pelted with tampons and pads, her tormentors also aim their phone cameras at her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

I was not surprised to learn that several of my friends are in Guthrie-themed group chats; they’ve pelted me with their postulations all week long.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

My ears hurt and my lungs ached and my back stung where I’d been pelted by debris, but the pain in my stomach was gone.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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 ● Dec. 12, 2025

Walker Buehler pelting the pinstripes with precision pitches in the ninth inning of Game 5 to secure the championship for the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024

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

He just came pelting onward as though pursued by ravids.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor