Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pelting
IPA transcription: [p'ɛltɪŋ]
Pronunciations of pelting
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rain, pelting
    Meaning: anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
Usage examples
  • Back the way they came the boys retreated, and after them came the enemy pelting them without mercy and with good aim.
  • Shortly before dark, Phil, chancing to take a cross cut from Middle Street to High Street, observed Roy Hooker pelting away with a baseball at the white shingle on the barn.
  • But immediately, thereupon, was poured forth on the dim air such a stream of pearly sounds as if all the necklaces of some heavenly choir of woman-angels were broken, and the beads came pelting down in a cataract of hurtless hail.
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