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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 would follow along behind, listening to the rain pelt the trees, and watch her wind her way home.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

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

Prized and hunted for their pelts in the 1700s and 1800s, by the early 1900s there were too few animals left to hunt commercially.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

Inside the dim, narrow shop lined with racks of merchandise, the smell of pelts fills my nose.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

‘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

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

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 ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

The bus was being pelted by what sounded like splattering rain.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

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

It’s not possible to eliminate all of that — or the sirens that bothered Nick Kyrgios last year or the thwack of rain drops that Andy Murray once complained about pelting the shut Ashe roof.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

Through the pelting rain, I could see the small buildings of the village up ahead.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani