pelting 1 of 2

present participle of pelt
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pelting

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pelting
Noun
First Amendment groups have accused federal authorities of carrying out excessive tactics, including pelting protesters and the media with tear gas and pepper balls. Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025 One table is pelting fries at other customers. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025 Further north, footage filmed by a resident showed ferocious gusts of wind pelting tall trees in the Batanes province. Helen Regan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025 Rain starts pelting down, and everyone rushes to pull rain covers over packs and stuff sticky arms in rain jackets. R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025 The Gallagher brothers have spent the better part of the past 15 years pelting each other with insults. Alex Edelman, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025 The inappropriate item missed the court, instead pelting the child in the leg, cops said. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025 One video taken by Bradley Smith showed pea-sized hail pelting his pickup and windows as the storm moved through Westfield. Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pelting
Verb
  • Inside, there’s the occasional model being fitted and photographed, outside there are truck drivers, caterers, lighting specialists and many more milling around or scurrying about.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Normally, the hours and days before the prospect of a shutdown on Capitol Hill are filled with scenes of lawmakers and aides scurrying about to negotiate possible settlements.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jourdan is a relatively calm ghost (staff report objects being moved around the restaurant), but there’s a slightly more active spirit in the Courtyard Bar, where there have been three instances of an unknown source throwing a glass from across the room.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The duo is throwing a party—Eileen will be there, along with her current paramour, also a collaborator in her work, Thea Clifton (Imogen Poots)—though tragedy will strike by the night’s end.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So in the moments after takeoff, Higginbotham always stared at his watch, heart pounding, counting the seconds to a minute.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Bolsa Grande came out pounding the ball, and senior Haley burst up the Matadors sideline for a 68-yard score.
    Zach Cavanagh, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a large bowl, whisk together sweet potato puree, maple syrup, eggs, heavy whipping cream, pumpkin pie spice, and kosher salt until smooth.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Both states punished people who returned after being removed for violating vagrancy laws by public whipping.
    Time, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two members of the airline crew can then be seen hurrying from the rear of the plane toward the fire.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Pedestrians are hurrying past to find their places on Fifth Avenue, but the girls have a different kind of readiness about them.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After her 2023 arrest, Lorincz admitted to hurling racial slurs at the children, according to the arrest affidavit.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Walking away from a fight or turning the other cheek at someone hurling insults your way would be an insult to our own ego and pride.
    Ed Lavandera, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Collins is no doubt licking his chops studying tape of another Patriots rookie, left guard Jared Wilson, who allowed two sacks last weekend.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Chirping is also a friendly call for attention, while gentle nipping and licking mimic grooming rituals.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As the trailer promises, those threats — whether of the high-flying, head-smashing, fiery, toothy or mysterious variety — will leave audiences on the edge of their seats, and holding onto their butts.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Most of the smashing is done by Tamburlaine, a Scythian shepherd by birth, who rises to the peaks of power, lays waste to one kingdom after another, and has the temerity, at the climax of Part 1, not to die.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Pelting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pelting. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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