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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

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 does a little bit of everything — recently, it was prepping a seal pelt for the San Pedro Marine Mammal Care Center — but tends to do pet pickups the most.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

All this flashed through Digory’s mind in a second; then he took to his heels and ran for the gates as hard as he could pelt; the Witch after him.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

The Chargers are making their season debut at SoFi Stadium, and they already have two big pelts to hang on the wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025

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

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

Around 400,000 years ago, early humans hunted beavers as a food resource and possibly also for their pelts.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023

Rain pelts the windows and gathers in puddles along the edge of the house.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Our team of reporters pelted experts with questions about how to survive and even thrive—with one stipulation: We wanted practical, truly executable counsel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

But, overall, some travelers dodged shutdown bullets, others were pelted as airlines canceled more than 10,000 flights in the last week alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Her hands went to her staff, and I gripped the gloves in my pocket, just as two large balls of sap pelted us both between our eyes.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

With his next pitch, Vásquez fired it even more inside, pelting Ohtani’s right thigh with a 94 mph fastball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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

Razi watched the raindrops pelting into the sea, forming little tumblers of water around each.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook