They were even pelted with dirt from the kennels, and assailed with every species of violence and insult.
Their guns were unloaded; but as they advanced, they found the mob increasing, and were pelted so pitilessly by them on every hand, and so grossly insulted by opprobrious language, that they loaded them and fixed on their bayonets.
The little boys followed him with stones and pelted him, crying, "A madman!
Although the wind howled about the vehicle and the rain pelted against its windows, conversation had become possible.
We all took up stones and pelted the monkeys that were at the very top of the cocoanut trees, and these animals in return peltedus with cocoanuts.
Others again were chased through the city in a state of nudity, andpelted with stones.
So I just pelted back to Thorn's cottage, told his wife to tell him my news, picked up the bicycle and came right back.
Then came a swift rush across the hall, and Daphne and Jill pelted into the room.
He concluded by intimating that he had been peltedin public for the part he had taken, and, as the people were determined, apparently, on having their fling, there was little use in opposing them.
It pelted Lord Elgin, the Governor-General, with rotten eggs, and burned down the Parliament house.
He will be pelted with the braggadocio of equality.
They pelted the girls from every direction, and the wind seized their breath.
Connie cried as the snow pelted and stung her face.
He so warmed and animated the People against this monstrous Ornament, that it lay under a kind of Persecution; and whenever it appeared in publick was pelted down by the Rabble, who flung Stones at the Persons that wore it.
All the while in a royal rage He pelted with fragments of foliage, Curly acanthus and vineleaf scroll, Finial, dogtooth and aureole, The linnets and finches who came to condole.
First, the man pelted him with stones, but Cipparus would not give up.
If she ran, he pelted after until she took refuge up a tree, but if she proved to be some shrewd old grimalkin who held her ground he suddenly slackened his pace and sauntered casually by, trying to look as if he did not see her.
His hands kept convulsively clinching together as he pelted along.
One night in particular a lion attempted to enter, but had been repulsed by the Tokrooris, whopelted him with firebrands.
Once more handfuls of sand were pelted upon his face, and, again repulsed by this blinding attack, he was forced to retire to his deep hole and wash it from his eyes.
A thick haze covered the forests; rain often pelted us; the firmament was an unfathomable depth of grey vapour.
At Leeds the mob followed him, and pelted him with whatever came to hand.
The rioters in Pickett Place pelted the police with stones and pieces of wood, broken from the scaffolding of the Law Institute, then building in Chancery Lane.
P: Which pelted them with stones of baked clay, S: Casting against them stones of baked clay, 105.
Accordingly, off I pelted hot-foot for the meadow, but on reaching the slope above it could see no lanterns either about the pallace or on the beach.
The horror of it held me by the hair, but I flung it off and pelted down the lane and through the mews.
But it slipped by me, travelling at speed towards the mainland; whither I pelted after it hot-foot, and so across the fields towards Pengersick.
Recollect I was a little boy when you were a young lady, and I havepelted you with snowballs, and called you 'Caroline'.
Meantime the stage was wandering about a plain with gaping gullies in it, for the driver could not see an inch before his face nor keep the road, and the storm pelted so pitilessly that there was no keeping the horses still.
And so on--day in and day out the talk pelted our ears and the excitement waxed hotter and hotter around us.
Schools of whales grew so tame that day after day they played about the ship among the porpoises and the sharks without the least apparent fear of us, and we pelted them with empty bottles for lack of better sport.
Approaching the church of Riddarholm, his carriage was pelted with stones, Fersen himself seeking shelter in various places, but being pursued by the mob and killed.
In a town in Holland, Ahlstroemer barely missed being pelted with stones by the mob.
Kenelm to the child--"you who pelted me so cruelly?
I suspect she pelted me too, for she seems to have run away to hide herself.
That need could be met as it arose, and in the meantime the first and more imperative need was to get across the open, to escape the bullets that pelted about them.
They pelted past the lad, bellowing, bleating: a tumult of arms, legs, aweful eyes in aweful faces.
It was going seven in Ditchling as I pelted down the Beacon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pelted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
