pelt

[US]/pelt/
[UK]/pelt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to throw (something) continuously, to attack, to skin
vi. to throw (something) continuously, to descend rapidly, to move swiftly forward
n. a throw, an attack, a rapid descent, speed, skin, fur.

Phrases & Collocations

Animal pelt

Fur pelt

Wolf pelt

Pelted with rain

Pelted with snow

Example Sentences

the rain was pelting down.

The rain pelted down.

The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.

We pelted our friends with snowballs.

The crowd pelted the mayor with angry questions.

He pelted toward the post office.

I pelted across the road.

I ran full pelt away from the harbour.

pelted each other with snowballs.

Hailstones pelted the tent.

two little boys pelted him with rotten apples.

children who pelted stones at the neighbors' windows.

Their sleek, unmarred pelts are prime quarry for seal hunters.

The sheriff announced a bounty of 15 dollars for the pelt of every coyote killed.

They pelted down the hill because it began blowing hard.

The police were chasing him so he ran full pelt down the road.

he spotted four boys aged about ten pelting stones at ducks.

But in September, Cypriot external tourist quantity compared with the same time last year reduced 3.2%, the British vacationist population is peltes 11.6%.

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