Words similar to pelt
Example sentences for: pelt
How can you use “pelt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
You could just ask him what he makes of, say, van Pelt's assertion that the answer to the riddle of the gas chambers was all over the archives, or what he thought of the chemist's declaration that the test performed for cyanide was the wrong test.
So we can have plastic hair clips or cotton potholders in zebra skin, vinyl-covered hassocks in giraffe pelt, soft corduroy sofa cushions or tough twill suitcases in tiger fur, and nylon zipper jackets in Dalmatian spots for 4-year-olds.
"If he had spent time in the archives," says van Pelt, "he would have found evidence about ventilation systems, ways to introduce Zyclon B into these buildings--but of course I don't think he knows German so it wouldn't have helped very much."
(The Scarecrow taunting the Apple Tree, so that he will pelt them with his apples.)
In Gulliver's Travels , the hero closely observes insect droppings and the stinking evacuations of cows, while the horrible Yahoos pelt him with their dung.