pelt
verb (used with object)
to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
have pelted
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present perfectof pelt.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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As shelters have overflowed, people have been forced to sleep on the streets outside, even as winter rains have pelted the coastal enclave in recent days.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Many are packed into U.N.-run schools and other facilities across the territory’s south or sleeping on the streets outside, even as winter rains have pelted the coastal enclave in recent days.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Hitters have pelted him for 11 doubles, one triple and six home runs since the stretch began Aug. 19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2019
Such tactics have pelted the stocks of most credit-card issuers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Could I but have stiffened to the still frost—the friendly numbness of death—it might have pelted on; I should not have felt it; but my yet living flesh shuddered at its chilling influence.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
