A pelting of insults.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : The child pelted the cows home from the fields. ,The wind and rain pelted the roofs and walls of the houses for four days.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The wind, rain, and snow pelted against the castle walls.    From Dictionary.com. 

The fight had become a game, and we took huge delight in pelting him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter VI] Reference

The final two heats of the four-man were run with the temperature near 40 and rain pelting the track through a howling wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Lange beats Hays for four-man gold at bobsled worlds] Reference

With the rain pelting down, Tennessee's Corey Larkins fumbled the ensuing kickoff away to Florida, but Grossman threw an interception.    From Wordnik.com.  [NCAA Division I College Football - Florida vs. Tennessee] Reference

She recalls pelting him with a bottle the first time she met him.    From Wordnik.com.  [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference

This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

Poor Marian got tired of watching the pelting rain and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

  Rain started pelting the hood once we hit the highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dump like no other.] Reference

A hard, driving rain, pelting down on the seaport of Palos.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shipmate—Columbus] Reference

The water was pelting my face and neck and breasts and feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homunculus] Reference

The steady pelting of the rain made conversation impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

The wind still blew and the rain came down in pelting drops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference

At length through the pelting rain, there bore down upon the Sussex.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

His supporters filled the streets, pelting the governor's palace with eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico's Never Seen A Race Like This] Reference

When I came to the university I was dripping wet because of pelting rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [main erogenous zone of all women.] Reference

Tabor and Arnold, however, weren't the only experts pelting the FBI with advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Of Koresh] Reference

He once told me that one of his favourite memories was pelting a cat till it died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panthera pardus] Reference

Before the palace was a crowd of fairy maidens pelting each other with rose-leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales] Reference

They routed out pockets of blue infantry, sending some pelting back toward the Harpeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

The tarp is covering the Sun Life Stadium and a second burst of rain is pelting the park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nationals, Marlins to play tonight] Reference

Very early on, Katie talked about him being forced out of Ireland by a pelting of eggs and shoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jodie Evans: Blair Should Take a Journey to Jail] Reference

He walks around the empty house bellowingfuck, caged ego pelting exposed brick walls with its roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parsing We] Reference

The stone-pelting intifada-like street revolt has been the most serious crisis in Kashmir in decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian security forces crack down on protesters after violent demonstrations] Reference

Business leaders formed Texans for Trade Expansion, and began pelting Congress with pro-trade arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mexican Miracle?] Reference

The questions, direct and uneasy, began pelting teachers and parents even before the gulf fighting began.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Little Children Have Big Worries] Reference

The rain was pelting him, and his steel-colored hair formed a geography through which rivulets of water coursed.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference

She felt the cold raindrops pelting her scalp through her hair as she threw open the door and headed for the cashier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan] Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) PINKWATER: Rose has her peashooter and she is pelting Mary Smith, who's enjoying it hilariously.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mary Smith' Wakes Up Village Sleepyheads] Reference

In Taipei, about 80 protesters gathered around the de facto Japanese embassy Tuesday, pelting the building with raw fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Dispute Defers China Visit To Japan] Reference

It had been decades since a major hurricane had flushed out the bay, churning its stagnant water and pelting it with cleansing rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's A Bay Without Water] Reference

Approximately 40,000 revelers descended on Buñol, Spain, Wednesday, for their annual tomato-pelting festival, known as La Tomatina.    From Wordnik.com.  [PHOTOS: Tomato-Throwing Mayhem At Spain's La Tomatina Festival] Reference

When T-rex chomps down on a Ford Explorer, its horrible bite and the rain pelting its snout would have been a difficult effect for ILM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Believe In Magic] Reference