Sentence examples for water pelted from inspiring English sources

When it rained, water pelted the leaves outside my enchanted tree house.

Before a worldwide television audience in the hundreds of millions, these contestants then chased each other through tanks of water, pelted each other with fake hams, and played games dressed as enormous chess pieces and vegetables.

A decade ago, scientists found that most of the noise in water pelted by raindrops is not the sound of the raindrops hitting the water but rather vibrations of microscopic bubbles created by the impacts.

Halfway through, I became exhausted and sat cross-legged on the floor of the shower — the water pelting down on my hunched back, echoing up and filling my head with nothing but its steady pounding.

I got sprayed with a water cannon, pelted with sweets by Trigger from Only Fools and Horses and then repelted when school kids realised the potential for Jelly Tots as missiles and chucked it all back.

An exhaustive search of the weather archives might turn up evidence of a few dry hours, or possibly even of an entire day without lashing winds and dark skies and the big, fat, hurtful drops of water that pelted us from the heavens.

Passersby pelted water bottles at the protesters, because they held up signs and chanted in support of Uriel Ferera, a 19-year-old Israeli who refused to enlist on moral grounds.

He was tear-gassed, shoved, insulted and pelted with water, and emerged gasping for air.

The celebrating Uruguayan players were briefly pelted by water bottles from the crowd.

On a visit to Washington, DC, last week Mr Livingstone was pelted with water by an animal-rights activist, who called him a pigeon-murderer.

And gravity tends to get the better of the lever that controls water temperature in the shower, meaning you may get pelted with increasingly hot water.