pelt
Example Sentences
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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
The weak atmosphere and magnetic field also allow carcinogenic cosmic radiation to pelt Mars’s surface: One day spent outdoors there equals about two years of radiation exposure on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
At full pelt, Pollock clocks around 10 metres a second - the sort of speed normally associated with pacier backs.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 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
And again he began to pelt toward the sound of the bell, his blood as warm as the swollen, spring-tied earth.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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