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    Use "pelting" in a sentence

    pelting example sentences

    pelting


    1. The rain was pelting down, the thunderhead was formed in Moamar's likeness


    2. I was pelting along, at a loss at my reaction and scared


    3. have been so bad if it hadn’t been pelting with rain that


    4. The cacophonous cracks, brilliant flashes of lightning and walls of pelting rain were on their way


    5. The storm’s pelting rains and winds did not seem to affect the craft or the area underneath it


    6. Rain was pelting down like a waterfall


    7. She ran out the door, through the hall, across the pelting rain of the courtyard to the open stable door


    8. For a long moment the world stood still, nothing but the inky black of the storm, the pelting of the hard raindrops against their bodies, against the thick hides of the horses, and there was nothing …


    9. Suddenly rain started pelting down


    10. prayers of our hearts probably sounded like a heavy rain pelting the

    11. Soon there were hundreds upon hundreds of bolts of energy pelting him, overpowering his defenses and utterly destroying him


    12. pelting him from above


    13. Of course the political city of Babylon will survive the fiery mountain of Revelation 8:8, yet will face a similar pelting at the very end (Revelation 16:19-21)


    14. insistence of the wind and the voices, of the pelting rain


    15. By now the rain was simply pelting down, and Stephen and Justin were soaked


    16. She gazed out into the horizon and watched the rain come pelting down --anything but the ugliness she was going to witness


    17. Behind him and below him the Afghulis came pelting, mouthing their rage, too furious even to remember that the only way they could reach the height whereon he rode was to traverse the river-bed in the other direction, make the broad bend and follow the twisting trail up over the ridge


    18. Behind them the guards were yelling as they stumbled over the shambles in the mud, and they came pelting vengefully down the alley, seeing the vague dark mass moving between them and the light of the distant street


    19. The blaze sputtered and died as a gust of wind swirled about us, pelting all of us with gravel, stinging skin, making it hard to see beyond our raised arms protecting our faces


    20. When they reached the beach where the blowing sand and pelting rain pricked their faces like tiny pins, the tide was in substantially more than usual and brought strong waves crashing onto the beach about ten yards from the riders who progressed slowly and cautiously in the treacherous night

    21. A few started pelting them with stones, which, by luck, missed the car


    22. The rhythmic sound of the pelting rain put


    23. He hugged his wife close as the pelting rain


    24. After all aren’t we all waiting? Her trench coat failing against the cold and a black umbrella her only source of protection from the pelting torrent


    25. By the third day the autumn rains were pelting down, making our misery three times what it had been


    26. pelting the thatched roof on the little House of God


    27. The rain was intermittent, at times pelting down in gust-driven torrents that rattled against the van, then subsiding to a light drizzle that floated quietly down, enveloping them in an eerie silence until the next peal of thunder


    28. To this vast accumulation of wisdom what more could be added? When a late Principal tried to introduce profane science, even through the medium of their own Urdu, were they not amply justified in pelting him with brick-bats and rotten mangoes


    29. started pelting the said idol at them swaying his hands forcefully


    30. The storm clouds seethed and boiled and suddenly thousands of shards of ice were pelting down into the witch-hunters, cutting, slicing, blinding

    31. The storm raged outside, rain pelting the long windows of the large family room making the usually cozy atmosphere cold and ominous


    32. me some and started pelting me around the face with quick, loving kisses


    33. The helicopter tossed and turned with the open door and rain shot in pelting Jeff in the face


    34. Providence was with me as the moment I went through the doors, a sudden thunderstorm began pelting fat raindrops on the roof


    35. There were plenty of useful projectiles and since I had locked the gate he wasn’t getting in, I could stand their safely pelting him and the car if he tried anything


    36. She couldn’t hear above the ringing in her ears or see through the rain pelting her face, but she could fight


    37. started pelting stones at us


    38. Pelting them with their own turds, and running safely away up into the upper branches where the bigger apes could not follow


    39. Abruptly, the rain outside grew heavy again, pelting noisily against the windows


    40. I drove the Rebel in Kevin Henry’s yard and tore up the grass, pelting the house with dirt

    41. Another tapestry fell pelting more guests with food as it took out another table


    42. Now the storm was releasing its fury with a vengeance, and the menacing black clouds were pelting hailstones which were small at first, but soon were the size of golf balls


    43. One of the young blokes started pelting whatever he could lay his hands on in the direction of the police


    44. In my shock, I barely heard him screaming into the sky, rain pelting his upturned face, the howl echoing over the crashing waves and screaming wind


    45. Perceiving a flock of beachbirds, that fed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebbles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small sea-fowl, displayed remarkable dexterity in pelting them


    46. Despite that, the majority responded by going prone and spreading out to make themselves poorer targets, not by simply turning around and pelting back the way they’d come in terrified retreat


    47. The rain was pelting and rattling upon the leathern top of the carriage, and the wheels swashed as they rolled through puddle and mud


    48. The lieutenant used one hand to shade his eyes from pelting raindrops and returned his attention to the thoroughly unimpressive island Captain Ahbaht had been ordered to secure


    49. At the range of a couple of hundred yards we emptied our magazines, firing bullet after bullet into the beasts, but with no more effect than if we were pelting them with pellets of paper


    50. He said if Brooke wanted a pelting, he could get it cheaper than by going to the hustings












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    Synonyms for "pelting"

    pelting rain

    "pelting" definitions

    anything happening rapidly or in quick successive