Sentence examples for pelting from inspiring English sources

The word "pelting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the action of throwing or shooting a lot of objects or liquids, usually with force. For example, "The protesters pelted the police with stones."

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pelting

verb

Present participle of pelt

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School students who had staged a walkout began pelting police stationed near Gray's funeral.

In July, Bieber pleaded no contest to misdemeanour vandalism for pelting a neighbour's California home with eggs.

"It's just that you can't match the finish," she was saying, as we watched our children pelting one another with small plastic balls.

A protest on January 16th turned violent, with protesters pelting the police with snowballs and stones.

But in the winter, life here is dark and close.Recently, near-hurricane-force winds ripped through Homer, pelting the area with rain and bolting us out of our deep freeze.

Several thousand football fans and right-wing radicals shouting "Russia for the Russians" clashed with riot police, pelting them with heavy objects.

Emboldened by the knowledge that the Riot Act had not been read and that the soldiers could not fire their weapons until it had been read and then only if the crowd failed to disperse within an hour the crowd taunted the soldiers and dared them to shoot, while pelting them with snow, ice, and oyster shells.

The Charger is built similarly to the Tank boss character from the original game and lives up to its name by pelting into survivors knocking them for six.

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But the government in Delhi would be wrong to think of Kashmir as yesterday's problem.In my interview Mr Shah repeatedly explained how he was a moderate, in favour of non-violence, how he opposed the stone-pelting by youths and the violence which had ensued, claiming over 100 lives in 2010 and how it was a mistake to equate Wahhabis with violent extremists.

And so, in the past day, we have enjoyed the release of endorphins that comes with giving Ryan Braun exactly the kind of public tomato-pelting he deserves.

In several instances, the police stopped journalists from getting close to areas of heavy stone-pelting.

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