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Japan's yukigassen federation emphasises the "mental challenge" posed by the game, in which players on both teams pelt their opponents while taking cover behind shelters.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

The weak atmosphere and magnetic field also allow carcinogenic cosmic radiation to pelt Mars’s surface: One day spent outdoors there equals about two years of radiation exposure on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

She said, “You were able to put your pelt back on. You’re spending more time in your seal suit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

By aiming above a wall, they could pelt the town behind it with beehives, scorpions, snakes, flaming pitch, rotten vermin, or excrement.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

Shrugging off the lion pelt, she knelt beside the corpse and closed the dead man’s eyes, ignoring Jhiqui’s gasp.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

River otters were hunted by the thousands for their pelts in the 17th and 18th centuries, according to the Sacramento Zoo’s page about the animal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain 400 years ago for their meat, furry water-resistant pelts and a substance they secrete called castoreum - used in food, medicine and perfume.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

Human hunting of wildcats—for pelts and because they were seen as vermin—in Great Britain in medieval times eventually drove the animals up into the remote highlands of Scotland.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 6, 2023

Prized and hunted for their pelts in the 1700s and 1800s, by the early 1900s there were too few animals left to hunt commercially.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

So he pelts Dumbledore with owls every morning, askin’ fer advice.”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

I was not surprised to learn that several of my friends are in Guthrie-themed group chats; they’ve pelted me with their postulations all week long.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

Take an incident in late 2023, when environmental protesters pelted O’Leary with a pie in his face—an episode the CEO credits with spurring a 6% rise in bookings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

But, overall, some travelers dodged shutdown bullets, others were pelted as airlines canceled more than 10,000 flights in the last week alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

His convoy was pelted with rocks on the campaign trail.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

He had studied and asked questions with the same unwavering intensity as when he had trapped and pelted and cured a Hebrew verb.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

A few weeks later in a town park, a woman began pelting my family with paper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Walker Buehler pelting the pinstripes with precision pitches in the ninth inning of Game 5 to secure the championship for the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024

The weather had improved in the hour or so before kick-off but it's pelting down again now.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024

Two years later, a shop selling musical instruments opened in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, her hometown, and An became a fixture there, pelting the owner with questions.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

They took turns poking each other on the chest, giggling, pelting each other with bread crumbs, whispering things the others couldn’t hear.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini