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Still, some farmers fear that further coronavirus outbreaks could take down an industry that has struggled for over a decade with declining prices for pelts.

It’s also likely that the living animals glow like their pelts, she says, as that’s been the case for all other known fluorescent mammals.

He sat for hours in an open booth, pelted by the elements, but he found the experience exhilarating.

After being dragged from his truck, Denny was pelted with bricks and beaten within an inch of his life by a crowd of black men.

The storms brought winds gusting up to 90 miles per hour and pelted areas near the launch pad with hailstones.

At which point he was pelted on live television by an unidentified flying object—a direct hit to his left cheek.

His gunners pelted the unwieldy budgerows with round shot until they began to sink.

It appeared on the trial that the soldiers were abused, insulted, threatened, and pelted before they fired.

Mobs collected; soldiers filled the streets and were pelted.

A torrent of the shafts fell all about us, and many pelted against our shields.

When he tried to preach he was pelted with stones and mud and mocked on every side.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pelted, such as: bombard, pummel, shower, batter, hurl, and assail.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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