Sentence example with the word 'pelting'

pelting

Definition n. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive

Last update: June 12, 2015


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Thunder tumbled down the San Juan Mountains, heralding the arrival of pelting rain that turned the Jeep road into a surging stream and the sky to an ominous shade of raven black.   [Please select]

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'" "They won't when I've got a career," retorted Winona, pelting Percy with his own walnut-shells."'   [Please select]

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The rain brought me to as it came pelting down upon the side of my face.   [Please select]

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They ran like people in a pelting rain, and between them they carried a large bag or bundle, slung in an oilcloth.   [Please select]

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Then Stonewall Jackson came along the front, riding in a pelting, leaden rain.   [Please select]

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Up in the town the yelling swiftly grew into a roar, and running figures came pelting toward the creek.   [Please select]

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If in the latter any hoof-prints showed confusedly, the coming storm held promise of a pelting and obliterating rain.   [Please select]

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Before the palace was a crowd of fairy maidens pelting each other with rose-leaves.   [Please select]

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A certain heat running through her, she set her pretty teeth and fell to pelting the pea-hens and chicks mischievously, breaking up all their aristocratic reserve and making them jump and squeak to some purpose.   [Please select]

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Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thunder-- Merciful heaven.'   [Please select]

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