What's the difference between hurling and pelting?
Hurling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hurl
(n.) The act of throwing with force.
(n.) A kind of game at ball, formerly played.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thousands took to the streets to protest, with many hurling rocks and firebombs at police.
(2) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(3) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
(4) Protesters hurled fire bombs at riot police who responded with tear gas, officers said.
(5) That would be something the newspapers, if they did their job, would be shouting at her today, instead of hurling insults at Jeremy Corbyn.
(6) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
(7) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(8) The keeper hurled himself in front of it to pull off an improbable block!
(9) In Ntinda, angry youths shouted and hurled stones and chunks of concrete at passing cars.
(10) MEPs boo as Nigel Farage hurls insults in the European parliament Read more Vicky Ford, also a Conservative MEP, ticks the Farageian box of having “worked in business”.
(11) The fans, many of whom had been drinking heavily for much of the day, responded by hurling bottles at the police as they marched towards them.
(12) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
(13) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(14) The pipe bomb device was hurled at Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers travelling in an armoured vehicle in the Creggan area of the city.
(15) And then, mercifully, I discovered How to Be a Woman, a blistering war-cry of a book urging girls to hurl celery into the bin, "give up on the idea of being fabulous" and instead revel in our glorious imperfections.
(16) A small but vocal group of hostile Ulster loyalist demonstrators were standing outside, blocking the station's heavily fortified gates, preparing to hurl abuse when he emerged.
(17) It was mostly just unplanned sprinting around the city, with bins knocked over and traffic cones hurled at traffic.
(18) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
(19) I never dreamed that it would end in the way it did.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Palestinian boy hurls stones at Israeli police during the second day of clashes in Shu’afat last year, after the murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir.
(20) Rioters are seen smashing up parts of the building to create missiles to hurl at police officers guarding a sectarian boundary close to the Catholic Short Strand area.
Pelting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pelt
(a.) Mean; paltry.
Example Sentences:
(1) After euthanasia and removal of the pelts, liver and kidney samples were collected from 174 mink and analyzed for 22 elements using inductively coupled argon plasma emission spectroscopy.
(2) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(3) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(4) After rising employment has failed to lift output as far as hoped, this reflects waning hopes about the potential of the UK economy once restored to full pelt.
(5) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
(6) Social status within a cage explained only 3.6% of the pelt quality variation while it could explain 52% of the BW variation.
(7) Allergenic components of cat pelt extract fractionated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes were identified using sera from 15 allergic patients who showed positive skin test and RAST to cat extract.
(8) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
(9) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
(10) In one incident in Jerusalem last month, an Israeli motorist was killed after his car was pelted with stones.
(11) United bite back and Rafael skitters down the right wing at full pelt, before sending a cross into the Stretford End.
(12) Also mass very positively (p less than 0.001) correlated with pelt quality (r = 0.82), indicating that the subjectively estimated pelt quality, in fact, can be derived directly from its weight.
(13) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
(14) Enthusiasts could ski to St Anton for a few runs and a Jägerbomb in the Krazy Kanguruh before pelting back for tea.
(15) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
(16) A. C. Jacobs, J. Venema, R. Leeven, H. van Pelt-Heerschap, and F. K. de Graaf, J. Bacteriol.
(17) According to local reports in Florida, two Muslim women in the Tampa Bay area were attacked after leaving prayer meetings – one was shot at and the other almost driven off the road and her car pelted with stones.
(18) This week he took great delight in cross-examining Robert Jan van Pelt, a Dutch architectural historian who is an authority on the gas chambers.
(19) The democracy march finished at the Field of Mars, where a sanctioned gay pride rally last summer ended with participants being beaten and pelted with eggs by anti-gay activists, and dozens of were detained by police.
(20) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.