Sentence examples for rain pelted down from inspiring English sources

The land lay like stone, and one night, all night long, rain pelted down on it the way people, they… Do you remember your twenty-first birthday?

Thick waves of ice rain pelted down on our pines and the Burlington streets were once again reduced to dark slush.

The land lay like stone, and one night, all night long, rain pelted down on it the way people, they say, hammer hard on a stone to find blood.

THE rain pelted down on Brasilia on the afternoon of January 1st as Dilma Rousseff's cavalcade drove along the Esplanade of the Ministries on her way to the National Congress.

As the rain pelted down on the Valley's green foothills last week, Mr. Alsop puzzled over why his just-out-of-the-box computer was crashing each time he attempted to change its screen resolution.

We saw the spring — a stone bowl of clear, flowing water — and the Old Man picked some flowers for his wife, an agricultural engineer, and we kept walking until the rain pelted down, then hurried back to the Mazda and to Malang — where I remembered I hadn't yet eaten satay komo.

He can be almost flippant: "Rain pelts down like God's judgment, which it is".

With rain pelting down, with Arsenal losing, sections of the 60,090 crowd on Saturday called out to Wenger, using an expletive, to spend some money.

He used photographs from the popular press, and within seven days produced his painting of a crowd packed round her aeroplane, with the rain pelting down diagonally.

Together, they form a menu I could imagine being the very first alfresco meal of the year or, just as easily, a comforting repast to be enjoyed, hunkered down in a warm kitchen, while the rain pelts down outside.

Some of these images are only loosely suggestive of the scenes and themes of "Invisible Man," such as a south-facing view of the famed Alhambra Ballroom, rain pelting down on Harlemites in raincoats and under umbrellas.