Sentence examples for to pelt from inspiring English sources

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to pelt

verb

To bombard, as with missiles.

  • They pelted the attacking army with bullets.

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Snow starts to pelt down outside.

He watched them start to pelt the police with stones.

What remained looked as if they'd been used by angry fans to pelt a performer.

He tries to pelt it in from 40 yards, but come off it.

Boos are bad, hisses worse and an audience unsatisfied enough to pelt is humiliating.

Each day, defying curfews, crowds in Srinagar and several outlying districts gather to pelt stones at police.

He went on to pelt Dianne Feinstein, a Senate elder whom he condescendingly lectured about the Constitution.

The island's meteorology service warned that strong winds and rain will continue to pelt Bermuda as the storm heads north.

As night fell and rain continued to pelt the racetrack, Busch conceded there was nothing that could be done.

Speed heads it across the edge of the six yard box, but Hugo Viana is unable to pelt it goalwards.

There, disgruntled runner-up Ravi B made his case by exhorting fans to "pelt something" on the empty stage.

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