What is "pelted"

Usage examples of "pelted".

Nemesis theorythat the death of the dinosaurs and the other periodic mass extinctions of the distant past were caused by a remote companion star to the Sun that regularly pelted the Earth with comets torn from the Oort Cloud.

There was a peacefulness to the garden that Cabe had not noticed on his prior visitation, most likely because he had been assaulted by drakes, pelted by magically flung chunks of crystal, and dropped on by Seekers.

Stones and gravel pelted them, drawing flinches from the stallion and grunts of pain from Kalam.

Olivia let Geoff drive the sleigh, and together they made snowballs and pelted Victoria and Charles until they drove them indoors, and then Olivia helped him build a snowman.

I suppose getting paid five fifty an hour to be pelted by paintballs triggered by attitudinal tourists would do that to the best of us.

The pigmies, some of whom were still quarrelling over the pelts of the dead peke and bear, took no notice of them or the fire as the men pelted past.

And lo, Baba Mustapha worked diligently, and Shagpat was behind an exulting lather, even as one pelted with wheaten flour-balls or balls of powdery perfume, and his hairiness was as branches of the forest foliage bent under a sudden fall of overwhelming snow that filleth the pits and sharpeneth the wolves with hunger, and teacheth new cunning to the fox.

If Bush got out and walked, he would be booed, shouted down, and pelted with eggs the rest of the way.

His only real success in life had come in Britain, and even earlier when he served as street commissioner, Caligula had personally pelted him with mud from the gutter as reminder to keep the streets clean.

As we were at some distance from the others I pelted her with abuse, telling her of her perfidy and of her corruption at an age when she should have retained some vestiges of innocence calling her by the name she deserved, as I reminded her how often she had already prostituted herself.

Likewise, on the 29th of August, 1792, at Rouen, the national guard, defending the Hôtel-de ville, is pelted with stones more than an hour while many are wounded.

The azi driver bailed out while it was still moving and raced for the hatch, pelted aboard.

A flood of wild-eyed Baptists poured out, stumbling and falling all over one another as they pelted down the church steps.

He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.

Gravel pelted them, and earth that had been packed to a bricklike consistency.