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How to use pelting in a sentence

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The rest of the trek passed by in a blur as we footslogged through mud and pelting rain and crossed the small streams flowing between the rocks.
He'd been left out of the reindeer games for so long, and now here Dad was, pelting him with missiles.
Then the rain came pelting down sending everyone running for the nearest bus shelter or shop doorway.
Her friend kept pelting her with balled-up bits of paper to try and wake her up, but it wasn't happening.
The pelting water bothers them, so they migrate to the dried fruit peel in the trashcan.
A loud clap of thunder sounded and rain could be heard pelting against the roof.
Fans inside the Arena had started pelting each other with plastic beer glasses and bottles, and the concert was temporarily halted.
The astonished defenders recovered in a few moments and began pelting the attackers with arrows and bolts once again.
But the raindrops weren't as they were, each drop was heavy, like bowling balls crashing into the ground, pelting Jude to his knees.
My father raced past me, and I followed, pelting up the dock to where my mother had dived into the river.
Suddenly Zach came pelting through the hallway, shoving people out of the way until he accidentally ran into me, bowling me over.
A boat from the killer fleet had struck the reef out past the skerries and was being pounded to pieces by the pelting waves.
Already, scores of mercenaries were surrounding the camp, pelting it with flaming arrows and a whole assortment of javelins and throwing spears.
Stardust drove through the rain at a blinding speed, the rain pelting off Kristine's face, stinging her cheeks.
When they look around to see who's been pelting them with spitballs, you'll just be casually checking the time.
Rain was pelting down and small puffs of steam were visible from everyone's mouth.
I chanced a second look and was rewarded with even more shots pelting my position dangerously close to my face.
As she was watching the rain pelting down, Calphurnia came in clad in a long, white, flowing nightgown.
A small figure in a long-tailed leather jacket came pelting down the steps.
In an explosion that left me temporarily deaf, the cannon stopped pelting us with energy and began hailing us with pieces of its debris instead.
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The other cab was pelting after him with all the enthusiasm of a hound on a fresh trail.
Some one, apparently, had been pelting the pulpit with them.
He saw how I was encumbered, and he must have felt the pelting rain.
They went on until they were beneath the shelter of the thick jungle growth of trees, which kept off some of the pelting drops.
Clare were pelting each other with roses, and chasing each other among the alleys of the court.
No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
They listened for a moment, but only heard the rain pelting against the windows and the wind howling among the trees.
And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone.
On February 3, thousands of angry Slovaks gathered around the country in protest, with demonstrators in Bratislava pelting government buildings with bananas and eggs.
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