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pelt - use in sentences
Object
- rain: The rain pelted against my pants, sticking them to my skin.
- stone: Over 2,500 students, who were demonstrating with workers, stubbornly resisted riot police, pelting stones at them.
Adjective modifier
- thick: Seen from a distance, the beeches clothe the hanger like a thick pelt.
- full: Also, try not to finish your ride at full pelt or on an uphill grunt!
- pickled: In addition there was a ready market overseas for United Kingdom exports of salted skins and pickled pelts.
- animal: On either side wall are stone box beds which would have been filled with bracken or heather, and covered with animal pelts.
Modifying Another Word
- severely: Witnessing Rasmus being severely pelted with mud, rocks, firecrackers and urine.
- down: Alex King evened the scores minutes later and with the rain pelting down, the first quarter began to get scrappy.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- down: The rain started to pelt down onto the sea.
Preposition: of
- animal: But the rabbit fur industry demands the pelt of a thicker, older animal than those slaughtered for meat.
Preposition: with
- egg: Pelted with rotten eggs, he spouted on, oblivious to the mirth he had perpetrated.
- stone: At 1530 it was being pelted with stones by children.
- missile: After the game the visiting team were pelted with missiles as they made their way up Holywell Ash Lane and Bonthron was attacked.
- bottle: Pro Violet supporters have apparently even been pelted with beer bottles at home games.
- rock: He received death threats at school and he was also pelted with rocks by fellow pupils.
- brick: Safety concerns were raised by the union after trains were pelted with bricks and stones.
Noun used with modifier
- beaver: A coin was created to equal the value of one beaver pelt.
- baboon: It's white and fluffy - kinda looks like one of Naraku's baboon pelts wrapped up. ] voice Stop, Kagura.
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