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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