pelted

Perhaps, but it's undeniable that they were actually pelted with stones and chased when driving through the town.

That is now my drum computer, and it gets regularly pelted with drumsticks when my grip tires.

Also, as the US Navy ships trying to enforce a blockade would be getting pelted by land-based anti-ship missiles.

During the course of the dinner, someone mentioned the unusual hailstorms that had pelted Beirut the previous two nights.

Blind and deaf with the roar of the explosion, shattered glass pelted over his living corpse.

Getting an error claiming it, but I assume they’re getting pelted by people claiming it right now.

Otherwise, we're just along for the ride, occasionally pelted by shrapnel from wars between giant corporations.

They absolutely should do better at updating the tags on their shelves but they're less making it rain and more getting pelted with pennies.

Imprisoned, beaten with foam pool noodles, and pelted with whipped cream pies.

I'm pretty sure I could feel one sixth of a mosquito hit me, because I've been pelted by much smaller gnats before!

A direct hit doesn't seem to be all that probable, but Mars is still likely to pass within the comet's coma and be pelted by debris [1].

Now we are just sitting on our hands getting pelted by clients...

For those who haven't read the article yet, when they say "fight", they mean actual physical fighting: > By late afternoon, the invigilators were trapped as students pelted the windows with rocks.

"Now we are just sitting on our hands getting pelted by clients..." You don't have a backup plan?

As he walks away he hears the sound of the hymn "I Cannot Be Sung in the Church" being pelted out at at full volume by the congregation.

Seriously, anyone enforcing a "Real Names Policy" in the 21st century should be pelted with copies of Reality Isn't What it Used to Be, which is small and harmless, and History of Western Philosophy, which is neither.