From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpepper somebody with questionspepper somebody with questionsAmerican English to ask someone a lot of questions, one after the other Reporters peppered him with questions. → pepper
Examples from the Corpus
pepper somebody with questions• At every stop, reporters peppered her with questions.• As the doctor tends the grandfather, the young man peppers him with questions.• Later, students peppered King with questions.• The justices peppered the attorneys with questions. 