pummeling
Example Sentences
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“They’re pummeling us every day,” said a woman pensioner sitting among her friends on benches in a leafy courtyard of a Soviet-era apartment block.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It was powder-blue pummeling, eight-clap crushing, Westwood wonderful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
After 20 minutes of warm, gentle pummeling, I was completely relaxed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
A San Diego man was killed Wednesday morning after a tree fell on him, the third death linked to the storm pummeling Southern California over the holiday, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
And other sounds came to them on the pummeling wind—the roaring beat of an engine, the creak and howl of great masses of wood being crushed together, human cries.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
