pelt
verb (used with object)
to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
had been pelting
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past perfect progressiveof pelt.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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But asked if Mr. Spitzer might steal some of the political limelight, Mr. Weiner paused a moment to eye the scrum of reporters who had been pelting him with questions about the former governor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2013
You should have heard her laugh and talk with them; throwing all their compliments and fine speeches back at them, as it were, as if they had been pelting her with roses.
From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
