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Definition of the day : « pelted »

  • verb beat; throw hard
Example sentences :
  • One of our chaps, taking in a load of wounded, was chased and pelted the other day.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • The Poets who embrace and admire the people are often pelted with stones and crucified.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Adelaide and Courvoisier, it seemed, might almost be pelted with the same stones.
  • Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
  • Two of the persons who went to fetch them were well thrashed and pelted with stones.
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • Then we pelted her with sunshine, and caressed her with shade, and then she was happiest of all.
  • Extract from : « Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 » by Various
  • So that, apart from other missiles, our shaven heads were sure to be pelted with jeers.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • We panted as we pelted on, parched and weary, faint and footsore.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • Mobs had jeered at her and often pelted her with rotten eggs.
  • Extract from : « Susan B. Anthony » by Alma Lutz
  • If they were ever heard of it was that they had been pelted in a riot.
  • Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Mas'r and Tom pelted the poor drowning creature with stones.
  • Extract from : « Uncle Tom's Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe