Sample Sentences for
pummel
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    Hubbard was pummeling his ribs now,  (source)
    pummeling = to hit repeatedly -- usually with fists
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    Bullies couldn't pelt me with spitballs, give me atomic wedgies, or pummel me by the bike rack after school.†  (source)
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    Fist-sized bubbles of steam coalesce amid its fractal tracery of hot vanes and pummel the rurface of the ocean, ceaselessly, all day and all night.†  (source)
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    He tried buying their mercy with his lunch, but they pummeled him anyway, leaving him bloody.†  (source)
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    The pummeling of the storm came in waves, almost drowning out the noise of the orchestra.†  (source)
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    If that wasn't true, I'd be drunk in some Dublin slum, looking for something weaker to pummel.†  (source)
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    Gradually he got the upper hand, presently he was sitting astride of me, pummelling me as I squirmed.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ING".
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    It even seemed to amuse him that he was regularly pummelled at the chessboard.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
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    The pain brings ANNIE to her knees, and HELEN pummels her; they roll under the table, and the lights commence to dim out on them.†  (source)
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    Then I decided I wanted to see the guy pummeled.†  (source)
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    They smash against walls and bedframes, relentlessly pummeling each other.†  (source)
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    I sneeze and the specks pummel across the light.†  (source)
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    "Is that the way to hold a file, you Asiatic?" bellowed Khudoleiev, dragging Yusupka by the hair and pummelling the back of his neck.†  (source)
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