We had to make a fight and check them, and we fairly peppered them for a while.
I got him at a good angle, and peppered him well, but just when I thought the end was near my machine gun jammed.
I came to his aid; attacked one of the enemy, andpeppered him properly.
Whether the ships which my lord peppered have risen again I know not, but if the whole Yankee fleet isn't there again, all sound and right side up with care, I hope I may be drotted into everlasting turpentine.
What was left did my ships destroy; verily I peppered 'em.
The ram has rammed everything to pieces, and the rest did I drive high and dry ashore, where I peppered 'em.
After our field guns had peppered the enemy for a bit, the gunboats tried again, but the fire was too hot for them, and the leading boat had to retire.
There was no doubt that it had been peppered with balls.
The Peppered Moth (Amphidasys betularia) Although this common species displays no bright tints, yet it is prettily marked, its whitish wings being peppered and blotched all over with black or very dark brown.
The Grand Plaza is generally a sandy vacant lot, where Mexicans sell tamales made of the highly-peppered but tempting cutlets of the Mexican hairless dog.
One by one fell prey to exhaustion, dropped with a last frenzied sob unto the earth; some lay still and quiet, peppered by a second stream of lead.
His minute survey of every inch of the uncouth, Army-rigged mortals, peppered with injunctions in relation to an absence of polish on boots or equipment, was never favorably received.
The Laird salted and peppered his food and said nothing.
He scooped his eggs into the egg-cup and salted and peppered them before he spoke again.
Pull out the undone heart with a fork and in its place lay shavings of smoked bacon, peppered and tightly rolled after having been laid for an instant on a hot frying pan; close the potato and set in the oven to finish cooking.
Use a wood cookery dish and put into a buttered bag two or three slices of wafer-thin salt pork and having salted and peppered the outside of the fish lay carefully on top the sliced pork.
His companions escaped to the ship and peppered the villages by the harbor, till the inhabitants, half frantic, were driven into the hills.
The Scouts were satisfied with their position; they settled a little deeper in the trench and peppered away valiantly.
The two parties had met upon the road; both had taken to the ditch and had peppered away at each other for a while.
When he had finished his dashing sketch of this glory, so transitory, he peppered the whole with cabalistic cipher, which only he could interpret into beauty.
He who puts most shots into his cap is proclaimed king of the hunt, and returns in the evening to Tarascon in triumph, with his peppered cap on the end of his gun, amidst yappings and fanfares.
Convent, hospital, barracks, all the houses of the town, were peppered by bombs till there was not a roof intact in the place.
Every tree for yards round was peppered with bullet holes.
Being duly peppered again it went down, and came up with "The Russians are fools!
The board was of coursepeppered with bullets, and went drown.
Now I sat between Miss Haldimand and Maddaleen Dirck, whom I had for partner, a pretty little thing, who peppered her conversation with fashionable New York phrases and spiced the intervals with French.
Even in our new position we were not allowed to remain undisturbed, for almost daily the Turks peppered us with shrapnel and high explosives, both from Achi Baba and the Asiatic coast.
His companions escaped to the ship and peppered the villages by the harbour, till the inhabitants, half frantic, were driven into the hills.
The engine, too, could be pretty well peppered with ordinary bullets without being disabled.
It could be peppered with bullets and yet would not leak a drop of gasolene, unless the bullet chanced to plow along the edge of the tank and open a long gash.
The French suddenly parted to either side of the deck, and the shower of iron peppered the astonished Dutchmen.
They are mostly patriots," whispered the Weasel, "peppered with Tories and sprinkled with Dunmore's spies.
There was an air battle just above us this evening,--a Taube sailing serenely along not very high, and not altering her course or going up one foot, for all the shells that promptly peppered the sky all round her.
Loading up this morning was hard to attend to, as a thrilling Taube chase was going on overhead, the sky peppered with bursting shells, and aeroplanes buzzing around: didn't bring it down though.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peppered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
