pummel

How To Use pummel In A Sentence

• Alan Krans, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said the restructuring announced last quarter should help the company avoid being "pummeled," as it was during the last economic downturn, when it had huge losses on sharp sales declines. EMC Says Tech Outlook Is Murky
• That said, they are still out to pummel, and their singer's caterwaul has never sounded more throat-shredding.
• Her fingers dug expertly into the knotted muscles of my shoulders, pummelled my back, massaged the tension out of my neck.
• By this time, the rain was pummelling the overhead skylight, but we just laughed and raised our voices.
• He pummelled the pillow with his fists.
• He slipped on a pair of weighted training mitts and started to belt and pummel the bag mercilessly.
• Now I would rather a player was cosseted than pummelled. Times, Sunday Times
• National Weather Service The hailstone, here being weighed on an official postal scale at the tiny U.S. Post Office in Vivian, was one of many huge ones that pummeled the town's roofs and pockmarked cars and pickup trucks last summer. Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone
• From one crawled screechingly an inchoate thing that gimped on incomplete legs while upon its back a fully aware man, or the top half of one, gripped and tore and pummeled the creature to which it was attached with suicidal violence. Perquampi
• It's high energy stuff, but it changes shape throughout with bewildering ease and fluidity, from freebop polyrhythmic pummelling to spidery ballad forms to spacey textural exploration.