Pelting

The fight had become a game, and we took huge delight in pelting him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Duncan pulled shut the cover of the companion scuttle, and held on, waiting, the first drops of rain pelting his face, while the Samoset leaped violently ahead, at the same time heeling first to starboard then to port as the gusty pressures caught her winged-out sails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The final two heats of the four-man were run with the temperature near 40 and rain pelting the track through a howling wind. ❋ Unknown (2003)

With the rain pelting down, Tennessee's Corey Larkins fumbled the ensuing kickoff away to Florida, but Grossman threw an interception. ❋ Unknown (2002)

She recalls pelting him with a bottle the first time she met him ❋ Unknown (2010)

As if "pelting" a car whatever that is warrants a personal assault. ❋ Michael Caddell (2007)

The New York Mirror called on audiences to give blackface performers “all the success they deserve—which is a sound and glorious pelting from the stage.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The heckling and pelting increased as more and more of the taverngoers arrived. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

He jumped into his pickup truck with two employees and raced away from the funnel, the storm pelting his truck with tree branches and debris. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Cancuns beaches were dull upon Saturday as rain began pelting down, though tourists walked a streets under umbrellas or makeshift rain ponchos. ❋ Admin (2009)

Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Your first hours with the Nintendo 3DS, the new 3-D portable gaming system no funky headgear necessary will be spent attacking disembodied heads floating in your living room and pelting dragons that have spawned from your coffee table. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They then drove off the governor by pelting his van with stones. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

Suddenly, a vicious wind whipped around the room, flinging my hair in front of my face, pelting my blood-soaked cheeks with dirt, stinging my eyes. ❋ Kate Brian (2011)

We glided along roads that were deserted, not because the police had closed them off but because it was pelting with rain and nobody was going to Brighton for the day. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The war-songs and dances were more unrestrained, and, from abuse, the plantation blacks had turned to pelting their helpless foes with pieces of wood, handfuls of pebbles, and chunks of coral-rock. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later, as I wait on Morpeth station for the train south, a grey squirrel taunts me from an overhanging sycamore, making rude gestures and pelting me with its nuts. ❋ Unknown (2009)