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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

Star full-back Ellie Kildunne scooped up a loose ball at full pelt and carved her way past four floundering French defenders before gleefully diving over.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

They could burn my flag or pelt me with stones, but if there were taxidermied kittens to be had, then I would go and bring them back to this, the greatest country on earth.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

The setting for this mystery is ingeniously established with a picture frame enclosing the image of a gloomy mansion as lightning flashes in the evening sky and rain pelts noisily down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

The costumes of the cachaceros, representing Africans, are phantasmagoric confections of old jaguar pelts, caiman skulls and peccary teeth.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Around 400,000 years ago, early humans hunted beavers as a food resource and possibly also for their pelts.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023

At Eastwatch someone had sewn him a motley cloak of beaver pelts, sheepskins, and rabbit fur.

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

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was stalked by a crowd that carried red flags, a symbol of revenge, and called him dishonorable as he was pelted with an unknown object.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

But his small group was quickly overwhelmed—and pelted with water balloons.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 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

The damage could have happened while it was pelted with debris from the fire and the engine detatching.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

He pelted toward a shortcut, hoping to overtake the brother and sister and close in on Snape and Malfoy, who must surely have reached the grounds by now.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

A man’s voice cut through the rain pelting the pitch-black Caribbean Sea, just audible between two boats tossed around by 10-foot waves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

At last their teeth were on edge, and the boys diverted themselves by pelting the girls with the grapes.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison