How To Use Pummel In A Sentence
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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
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That said, they are still out to pummel, and their singer's caterwaul has never sounded more throat-shredding.
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Her fingers dug expertly into the knotted muscles of my shoulders, pummelled my back, massaged the tension out of my neck.
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By this time, the rain was pummelling the overhead skylight, but we just laughed and raised our voices.
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He pummelled the pillow with his fists.
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He slipped on a pair of weighted training mitts and started to belt and pummel the bag mercilessly.
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Now I would rather a player was cosseted than pummelled.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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.
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I maintained my resistance, accepting the mental pummelling as he wore himself out against me.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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At Wembley, still seeking low-gear fitness, at times he brought to mind not so much a young Alan Shearer as the old Alan Shearer, a single pummelling shooting boot, to be unpackaged and wheeled about the park like a rust-bound first world war field gun.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
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U.S. Attorney Gregory Brower acknowledges in an interview that, up till now, his lawyers have sometimes been "pummeled" in court in this case.
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I am dying for a chance to pummel that guy.
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Today's ad of the day is not one ad but a series of attack ads in Alaska, where Republican write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski is getting pummeled from the left and the right as she seeks to keep her seat in the Senate.
Ad of the day: The Murkowski attack ad pile-on
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To the band's credit, this only seems to increase their pummelling potential, provoking them into walloping, abusing and thrashing their amps harder than ever.
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The boxer had pummelled his opponent into submission by the end of the fourth round.
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Since August, currencies like the Brazilian real and Mexican peso have plummeted against the U.S. dollar while stock markets in Russia and China were pummeled to multiyear lows.
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Slightly larger and heavier than its sister ‘Oroblanco’, ‘Melogold’ expresses more of its pummelo than grapefruit heritage.
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Agriculturally the company has dynamically produced lemons, oranges, avocados, apricots, walnuts, sugar beets, celery, cabbage, lima beans, peppers, flowers, strawberries, minneolas, cara cara navels, Satsuma mandarin oranges, pummelos, cherries, pistachios, almonds, peaches, pluots, plums and olives.
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They were woken the next morning by screams as the tsunami's waves pummelled the town.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why does not the cheated publican beg leave to check the gulosity of his defrauder with a repetatur haustus, and the pummelled plaintiff neutralise the malice of his adversary, by requesting to have the rest of the beating in presence of the court, -- if it is not that such conduct would run counter to all the conclusions of experience, and be the procreation of the mischief it affected to destroy?
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Deliveries that were once sneaked into the covers now pummelled the boundary boards.
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Mortar shells pummelled the starved earth and bullets zinged through the sky.
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A ship had thrown its anchor down near desolate shores, constantly ravaged and pummeled by persistent waves.
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The song is an instrumental, centered around a long guitar solo in which Pike again keeps it slow, taking a break from his trademark hammering trills and letting the notes hang while the rhythm section pummels away furiously.
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No, they don't do Oasis covers - heaven forbid - but the pummelling volume took my lugholes back to that school hall in 1994.
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The court was then told how, on May 30, Howarth caused another £100 of damage to Mr Hopkin's car after pummelling the bonnet with clenched fists.
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Then she pummelled Clare's pillow and kicked clumsily against the nearest wall with her booted feet.
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He trapped Conn in a corner and pummeled him ferociously for thirty seconds.
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For sixty-two years, the Navy pummeled the island with millions of pounds of bombs, missiles, depleted-uranium bullets, napalm and Agent Orange.
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The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home.
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The boxer had pummelled his opponent into submission by the end of the fourth round.
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By this time, the rain was pummelling the overhead skylight, but we just laughed and raised our voices.
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She told the hearing: ‘I was still trying to get her breathing by putting her over my knee and pummelling her back.’
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The simple truth has to be told: how he loved his country, and for another and a broader love, growing out of his first passion, fought it; and being small by comparison, and finding no giant of the Philistines disposed to receive a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
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Heading up to the top of the mountain for the afternoons finals the athletes were pummeled by high winds and dusty whirlwinds.
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I pummelled my memories, trying to place it, but could only decide that she was someone from inside the keep.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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At the International Festival, Macbeth has taken a healthy amount of pummelling and stretching.
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I had a quick shower, and was then back on the table to be covered with piping-hot towels then pummelled, kneaded and massaged all over.
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The Macaw's cannons unleashed a salvo that pummeled the pinnace.
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She was dying like a dog, a poor, broken animal in the street, kicked and pummeled, the life escaping from her in short arrhythmic gasps.
The Miko
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As a performer, you're only a piece of Plasticine being pummelled around by a director or conductor.
Portrait of the artist: Thomas Allen, baritone
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The cook pummelled at the dough.
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The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home.
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Within minutes, the platoon was being pummeled by heavy machine gun and rifle fire.
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Melogolds and Oroblancos are different hybrids from pummelo and grapefruit parents.
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In dismissing the idea of a "truth and reconciliation commission," Obama also recognizes that the Republicans would show no remorse for the Bush administration's actions; that they would insist that there is nothing to "reconcile" -; and that they would stay on the attack, pummeling the Democrats as weak, overly sympathetic to terrorists, and endangering national security.
Printing: Democrats' 'Battered Wife Syndrome'
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If I picked up the speed they were doing, I'd stack it on the first corner and end up at the bottom of the mountain all pummelled and tenderised in no time. just now, -0 / +1 "...
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If मरुत marút may be so etymologized, such that these storm gods 'crush' and 'pummel' with thunder3 rather than 'shine' through lightning, then surely so may Sanskrit márīci- 'mote or speck in the air' or 'particle of light' be likewise attributed to the homophonous root referring to crushing, grinding and wearing things away.
Rubbing away the shine (2)
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While the Democrats pummel each other John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, swans around the country burnishing his reputation.
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As Agrippa's dog had a devil tied to his collar; some think that Paracelsus (or else Erastus belies him) had one confined to his sword pummel; others wear them in rings, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Squeezing in an extra 90 minutes for our most prized, coltish 18-year-old is so obviously a bad idea that it is hard to resist the sense that it must, on some level, be rooted in the basic English urge to test and pummel, to boot-camp and basic-train.
Why we must savour the rare English delicacy that is Jack Wilshere
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Renny quit his pummeling and struck a martyred pose.
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Her body felt as if it had undergone a pummelling that had left an odd scent in the air.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The boxers gave each other a terrific pummelling.
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They pummelled their way upfield, they hammered at the Argentina line but got nowhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now I would rather a player was cosseted than pummelled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such was her hysteria she began pummelling him with her fists.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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A cold slanting, pummelling rain was hitting the beach as I drove in from Redondo.
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Stroll around to your local multiplex, meanwhile, and take your pick of movies about men shooting, beating and pummelling each other into unconsciousness.
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The classroom was almost empty, save for a cluster of little girls who sat at one table rolling and pummeling clay.
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Spas used to conjure up visions of rich, fortysomething women, slathered, pummeled and anointed, sequestered from the world while a plastic surgeon's handiwork healed among plush surroundings, granola farms in Battle Creek, or extreme fitness.
Live Better South of the Border & Spas and Hot Springs of Mexico
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Ocean waves pummel the rocky cliff faces, eventually turning some of the rocks into sand.
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The two teams have to dig out a raft, row to a pier, rescue a dummy while being pummeled by some random camo-faced dude on the pier ( 'pummeled' only has one 'l'? let's make a note of that), row back and then drag the raft and dummy along the beach while Harvey Walden IV fires a water cannon at them.
Maximum Awesome
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Here in California, I grow in my backyard "Oro Blanco" grapefruit and "chandler" pummelo.
An epiphany about grapefruit | Homesick Texan
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a pummel which is made of hard wood, and is something like a large mushroom with its stalk.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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Icicles broke from seracs, pummeling him; cold water flowed down cracks, soaking him; avalanches forced him to squeeze against the face.
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Cougars lifted their game in the second half and pummelled the Lions line, but could not find the final touch.
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The boxer had pummelled his opponent into submission by the end of the fourth round.
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This was a proper, medicinal pummelling and bliss to my knotty shoulders and stiff spine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luckily, I wasn't pummelled to death with cast-off newsroom typewriters, and was even allowed to continue working.
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The whole perimeter of the home was covered in what I call gore marks, places the dead had pummeled for days in an attempt to enter.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
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Then his father was lunging after the both of them, and he dodged to the side to avoid being pummeled by a fist twice the size of his hands put together.
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It doesn't matter if they are female or male, if a 16 year old can "pummel" a police officer for two minutes - no mention of a weapon here let's be clear - then that person should not be a police officer.
TUMEKE!
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This also would explain its foot dragging on peace with Palestinians, a pattern seen prior to pummeling Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008-early 2009 (a move approved by General Jim Jones and Hillary Clinton). fw says:
Matthew Yglesias » ADL Hits Petraeus
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This commonly occurs when wind and waves pummel the shoreline; the water movement pushes in plankton that attracts baitfish and, consequently, bass.
Bass Against the Wall
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I saw Wyatt pummeling Adrian under a storm of blows and I began to understand why I had not found a calling card from Ace.
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Once there was a threat that the carry was going to disappear, everything got pummeled, including gold.
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He did mention he'd been back in the ring for a charity event, where he allowed a bunch of little kids to just "pummel" him.
MVN
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It was a new experience being pummelled and shaken at the same time, as the train hurtled along.
Times, Sunday Times
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And that's why the huge storm that pummelled the area last weekend took such a toll.
Times, Sunday Times
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In trademark whiteface and Buster Keaton regalia, Viglione pummeled his drums in a murderous rage, while Palmer's full, rich voice created a palpable drama.
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What ends up happening is nothing short of a miracle as the so-called gangbanger somehow stumbles with his gun and is pummeled into the ground by an entire crew of skaters.
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Mac was on him, a knee punching furiously into his leg, a fist pummelling into his kidneys, Mac had trained for almost every eventuality except for fighting an armed man in a small crammed lift with only his left arm.
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He trapped Conn in a corner and pummeled him ferociously for thirty seconds.
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The jet of radiation is pummelling a small nearby galaxy, damaging any planets in its path and probably destroying life on any that are habitable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Focusing now, rising from his makeshift seat, Jon could see that he was pummeling the intact head of a large filleted fish, probably a bluefish or a striped bass, that had washed up with the incoming tide.
Working Title: "Third Persons"
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Different elution fractions from pummelo peel extract exhibit different antioxidative activity.
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A dish of gnocchi with spicy house sausage and favas, for instance, may turn out to be a wildly salty and tomatoey riot that pummels the poor little favas into submission.
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Even if it hadn't been, the bulk of the Allies' heavy bombers were still required nightly to pummel the Ruhr corridor, the powerhouse of Germany's manufacturing industry.
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What I cannot believe is that the leader of the opposition did not adopt this as his main line of attack and pummel the President on this.
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a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
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Perhaps you've punched your PC, pummelled your printer or severed a server; maybe you've blown a fuse trying to solve a problem while talking to tech support and threatened to break someone's legs.
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Toyota limped out of horrific 2010 where massive recalls pummeled sales.
Auto Sales & Economy: December/2010 Sales Show Toyota's Resilience - CNBC
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The coach got up, crawled over the glass, and began pummeling Sir Slapshot with both fists.
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Featuring an old black iron, pans, kettles and jars, a washboard and posser, used for pummelling clothes, the look is completed with a shop sign thought to be more than 100 years old.
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The thief was pushed and pummeled by an angry crowd.
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The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home.
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Once he tried to punch Billy and got pummeled himself.
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The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home.
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The Texas Control Model, eye-for-an-eye carceral paradigm that pummeled the rehabilitation movement in American prisons has bloody footprints leading all the way back to the plantation.
Sam Slovick: Addicted to Incarceration
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For example: As the barbarian, your first available spell is titled "pummel," and it's powered by four red mana units and does a point of damage for every two red mana pieces on the board.
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Oester took up the beat by pummeling the back of his bass, and Wintsch reached inside his piano to dampen the notes he was playing.
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The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home.
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The child pummelled his mother angrily as she carried him home.
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Jamaican caves are formed by the percolation, or flow, of the slightly acidic rainfall that twice a year pummels the soluble limestone in which the systems are found.
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Another winter evening, many many years ago, Beth had found herself pummeled by snowballs thrown by a pack of mean kids after school.
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On Aug. 30, Gustav, a Category 4 hurricane, with record wind gusts over 200 miles per hour, pummeled the Isle of Youth and Pinar del Río province.
OpEdNews - Diary: End the Blockade of Cuba - Send Hurricane Aid
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Featuring only Spencer Seim's erratically melodic guitar and Zach Hill's pummeling, rhythmically arrhythmic drums, Hella has enough energy to power a small town, or at least get a few folks convulsing in reaction.
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His hangdog face looks like pummelled dough and unspoken anxieties lurk in his bleary eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He no longer pummels the light punchbag that has travelled with him from home to home over the years, and these days he occasionally uses a cane to assist his progress.
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But have you ever wondered about the person who plays the sacrificial bad guy in those drills, ultimately getting "pummeled" to protect and serve the public?
UFC Press Releases
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The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators
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There is even a greater irony in our virtual exchange as both of us stood for countless hours in hurricanes as wind and rain pummeled our slickers telling people like us to batten down the hatches.
Lauren Ashburn: Mommy's Got the Hurricane Blues
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I ran to the mirror and began pummeling it with my fist.
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Let your despair roll down those rocky cliffs, and be taken with the tide, pummeled and churned in the pacific surf, sprayed and splayed on the horizon, metamorphosed into air and light.
Teresa Marchese: If Only You Knew
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I pictured him walking home in the cold, or being held down and pummelled by some delinquent's fists.
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The current barrage of solar storms pummeling Earth hasn't harmed power grids on our planet or damaged satellites, but it's generated a lot of buzz.
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Which leads to Howard's decisive conclusion, "The drums are always pretty pummeling and jungley, the vocals are kind of squirrelly and fluttery, and the guitars are idiosyncratic and bounce off of each other.
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Her fists pummelled at his chest.
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Huge wafts of liquorice lift from the glass, then the palate is pummelled with savoury white pepper touches, meaty black fruit, green olives and a grippy warm finish.
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The viner grabbed the whole vines and spun them in a drum, pummelling the pods until they popped open and the peas dropped through a mesh and were sent into the rapidly filling container behind me.
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Suddenly, Lotus grabbed the guy's shirt in her fist and almost really pummeled his face in.
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It acts on one like a bludgeon until one's sensibility is pummelled flat and one's heart goes dead.
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He rises enraged and pummels Dares mercilessly.
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A friend of mine in the Republican circle used the word "pummeled" today, saying by outsiders, including friends saying you can't do this, you cannot put yourself out ahead of the people who have to make these decisions, like the Republicans in the Senate, that you do the party a disservice.
CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2009
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Wrapped in our sheets, we were taken in, five at a time, to have our buttocks pummelled by five very large and efficient masseuses armed with baby oil, who slapped, pinched and kneaded our flabbiest bits without the slightest hesitation.
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She felt like she had been pummeled with a meat tenderizer.
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If मरुत marút may be so etymologized, such that these storm gods 'crush' and 'pummel' with thunder3 rather than 'shine' through lightning, then surely so may Sanskrit márīci- 'mote or speck in the air' or 'particle of light' be likewise attributed to the homophonous root referring to crushing, grinding and wearing things away.
Rubbing away the shine (2)
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It was a new experience being pummelled and shaken at the same time, as the train hurtled along.
Times, Sunday Times
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He no longer pummels the light punchbag that has travelled with him from home to home over the years, and these days he occasionally uses a cane to assist his progress.
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They were woken the next morning by screams as the tsunami's waves pummelled the town.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're about to be verbally pummeled, which is kinda fitting, considering that's what you just tried to do to David.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Yet the din was overwhelming, a thunderous, persistent clamour, which pummelled one, anaesthetized the mind, annihilated thought.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The European bourses have barely paused for breath since recovering from the depths of early March, when in the backdrop of the imminent war in Iraq stock markets were on the receiving end of a pummelling.
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Like some unwanted child who no one loved, Boat Trip sank like a stone at the box office and took a pummeling at the hands of critics and audiences alike.
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He dropped his swords and pummelled the paladin's helm with his armoured gauntlets, knocking him backwards and disorientating him for a second.
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I propped myself up on my knees and pummeled him with my fists.
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She then proceeded to pummel him with her fists.
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Methods: To comparatively study lipophilic compounds by GC - MS in pummelo peel.
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When I finally wake, pummelled by a bruising sequence of unremembered dreams, I glance at my clock.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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This was a proper, medicinal pummelling and bliss to my knotty shoulders and stiff spine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the info is pretty ugly: "Navarro allegedly told an undercover Fish and Wildlife Service agent that he likes to "pummel" the hawks that he catches with a stick.
The Roller Scandal
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Henry David Thoreau agonized over pummeling a chestnut with a stone to bring down its nuts: "It is not innocent, it is not just, so to maltreat the tree that feeds us," he wrote in his journal on Oct. 23, 1855.
The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback
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In one telling scene, a middle-aged hausfrau pummels a fireman when he finds a stolen headcheese in her purse.
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Stewart was pummeling his typewriter with a force that suggested a man in the homestretch, a man close to climax.
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Our pommel horse ace clearly wants to give the gut a pummelling.
The Sun
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The French stick-in-the-muds were pummeled by English archers.
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He's jealous and insecure, wants to hear from her everyday, whines and moans when she calls, pummelling her with classic passive aggression.
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Improved Pummel, a Fury talent, will cause a successful interrupt to generate 10/20 Rage.
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It indicated that coumarin and isoimperatorin were main coumarins in Tomentose Pummelo Peel.
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We pummeled each other to the ground, screaming and yelling like our ancestors: barbaric Neanderthals.
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I ignored his yells and continued to pummel him with my fists.
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We make sure our minneolas, pummelos and a wide variety of other citrus are available to meet the unique needs of your customers.
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Kelly Holmes has been out of the army for six years now but still she bemoans the fact that her sex precluded her from getting into the boxing ring and pummelling a few people.
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She just stared furiously at me, lips twitching with something to say, fists clenched to pummel me into something similar to hospital food.
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Feeble fists started pummeling him, beating at his chest.
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Just a mere elimination of the word 'pummel' is able to fill my mind with wrong ideas.
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He hits Foreman with right hands - nobody hits George with right hands - and then he goes into the rope-a-dope and George is pummelling him.
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The threat of war pummeled Asian stock markets on Friday, with some bourses sinking to levels not seen since the Asian economic crisis.
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The cook pummelled at the dough.
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Major floods and annual freshets continued to pummel the structure with debris.
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Such bloodstained enormities pass unnoticed now in a media pummelled into numbness by a government at last bereft of any moral sense or shame.
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IDF drops warning leaflets in Gaza after mortar barrage on Israel Israel "pummeled" by a "barrage" of mortar shells.
Mike Power's 'Not A Blog'
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This is the same man (and I use that word begrudgingly) that pummeled Miguel Cotto into bloody submission with what many now suspect were similarly tainted hand wraps.
Dr. Johnny Benjamin: Pacquiao v Margarito. Please Don't Reward a Scoundrel!
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There are good reasons to reform the alternative minimum tax, which increasingly pummels the middle class.
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But for ARS horticulturalist Robert R. Krueger, the genus Citrus includes at least 16 species, with hundreds of distant relatives, including lesser-known, peelable oddities like pummelos, trifoliate oranges, and kumquats.
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Two of the injured teachers reported being dragged by their scalps while being pummeled by police using their nightsticks and shields.
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On the other hand, when the prevailing southwesterly winds sweep up the English Channel, the south side of the Isle of Wight can be pummelled while Cowes on the north side is sheltered.
Cowes weatherwatch
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Steel products caused the most damage but prices for lumber, plywood, gypsum wallboard, copper, stainless steel, pipe and fuel are all joining in to pummel contractors.
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Thus, he allowed pummeling old school hardcore breakbeats to rampage through drifts of scorching ambience.
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I could bring my skates and skate around too, but I would only get myself pummeled by the varsity team, if they got out of hand.
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Citrus is now in peak season and available in the widest selection of the year - from sweet navel oranges and tart grapefruits to the more exotic like the aromatic pummelos and tangy minneolas.
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While watching ‘The Passion’ I felt a sense of detachment even as I was being emotionally pummeled by the images on the screen.
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English - stretched and pummelled by a tireless gabble of journos, admen, rappers, surfers, druggies, cops, criminals, geeks and gurus - carries on growing and dominating the global tongue.
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This year, "Jane Austen's Fight Club" turned up on YouTube, with young ladies in empire-waisted frocks pummeling one another — just imagine Quentin Tarantino directing "Masterpiece Theatre.
When Mockery Is All That's Left
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One of my pet aversions is sitting cooped up in an aircraft in a not too spacious or comfortable seat and being pummeled.
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Four individual massage rooms are set in a giant aquarium where giant fish swim past as you are pummelled and pulled.
The Sun
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The girl pummeled her weak fists against Rhea's back like some comic damsel-in-distress character in an old movie.
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She flew at him, pummelling his chest with her fists.
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I had a quick shower, and was then back on the table to be covered with piping-hot towels then pummelled, kneaded and massaged all over.
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Rory was pummelling him with his fists, striking ineffectual blows at his chest and shoulders, swiping at his face with an open palm.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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A voice that pummeled with cheeriness elbowed me out of my thoughts.
It Wasn't Me.
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The door shuddered as thumping fists pummelled the wood.
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Stewart was pummeling his typewriter with a force that suggested a man in the homestretch, a man close to climax.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Pummelling her fists against her forehead, she tried to think.
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But for ARS horticulturalist Robert R. Krueger, the genus Citrus includes at least 16 species, with hundreds of distant relatives, including lesser-known, peelable oddities like pummelos, trifoliate oranges, and kumquats.
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Whether it is "Muskrat Love" slurping its way through the loudspeakers at CVS or "My Heart Will Go On" pummeling you as you sit on the runway, or Andrea Bocelli warbling his way through yet another treacly ballad while you're trying to enjoy your osso buco, music that a large number of people despise is constantly assaulting us.
Can't Stop the Music? Tell Me About It
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Even though a dreadful sense of finality pummelled him and threatened to bring back the depression that had barely nagged him for many years, he kept walking.
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And the critics are likely to pummel it mercilessly.
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Philistines disposed to receive a stone in his fore-skull, pummelled the obmutescent mass, to the confusion of a conceivable epic.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The end of the handle on a sword is called the pummel," Michael explains.
Academy of Historical Fencing
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Our pommel horse ace clearly wants to give the gut a pummelling.
The Sun
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And that's why the huge storm that pummelled the area last weekend took such a toll.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they have been reawakened by a pummeled currency and stock market, business collapses, soaring unemployment and rising consumer prices.
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The music moves from ominous grooves to all-out instrumental pummeling of the listener -- all in the same piece.
