Pelting [verb]
Definition of Pelting:
beat; throw hard
Synonyms of Pelting:
● Bombard
● Pummel
● Shower
● Batter
● Hurl
● Assail
● Pound
● Belabor
● Hammer
● Career
● Belt
● Speed
● Swat
● Charge
● Strike
● Dash
● Sling
● Rush
● Rain
● Wallop
● Shoot
● Knock
● Stone
● Tear
● Pour
● Cast
● Thrash
● Pepper
● Lapidate
Sentence/Example of Pelting:
And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone.
The other cab was pelting after him with all the enthusiasm of a hound on a fresh trail.
And there she sat, pelting the two of them with green apples.'
Some one, apparently, had been pelting the pulpit with them.
He saw how I was encumbered, and he must have felt the pelting rain.
It was far in January, and a terrible fall of snow was pelting down.
He cut the horse across the back with the whip and drove out into the pelting rain.
Who is this pelting me with mud, as if I were an apple-tree inside of a fence?
It is something to be able to say, in the pelting of a pitiless storm, 'Pour on!
Madam Clough had wished to go, but she dreaded the pelting storm.