pelt
verb (used with object)
to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
are pelting
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present progressiveof pelt.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Mere minutes into the first act, the warring Jets and Sharks gangs are pelting one another with buckets of paint, cans of trash and a truckload of watermelons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
To outsiders it may appear that the girls are pelting stones for nothing, but there is a story behind it.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2017
But he is regarded as an expert contract worker and weather photographer, and when tornadic storms are pelting his truck with hail and threatening imminent catastrophe, Moore's language can be impressively scientific.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now is the time when biting old Boreas, True to his calling, the tempests impend; His hailstones in fury are pelting before us, Our fingers are smarting, and heads they are bent.
From Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
"The apples are pelting us, and the rain drives in upon us."
From The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest by William T. Van Dresser
