Pelting

Synonyms for "pelting" (9 found)

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Here, with her hundred daughters, pale with dread, / poor Hecuba and all her female train, / as doves, that from the low'ring storm have fled, / and cower for shelter from the pelting rain, / crouch round the silent gods, and cling to them in vain.

Source: tatoeba (6844098)

It's pelting down.

Source: tatoeba (10638183)

Information from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows that the U.S. space agency NASA will have to take strong measures to shield visitors from the radiation that is pelting the planet.

Source: tatoeba (12154716)

[…] the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.

Source: wiktionary

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