pounded

Example Sentences

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Pounded by higher mortgage rates, sales of existing homes were down a sharp 22% in March from a year earlier.

From Washington Times • May 5, 2023

Pounded later by reporters’ questions about reducing crime in Chicago, he promised to be “smart” as well as “tough,” putting resources into youth employment and other preventive measures as well as enforcement.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Pounded just as thin, chicken Parmesan, plucked from the menu’s “Italian Classics” section, also comes with a flaw, tomato sauce so sweet it could almost double as ice cream topping.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2016

Pounded thin, fried crisp, mounded with dressed bitter greens.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2014

Pounded hard by a storm at 22,000 feet, Denman admitted defeat, and the three men turned around, returning safely to Darjeeling just five weeks after they’d departed.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer