pellet
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The Central Reserve Police Force didn't respond to our questions about the use of pellet guns and the injuries protesters appeared to sustain.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The law also prohibits throwing a “stone, pellet, bullet, arrow or any other missile, in, over, across, along or upon any street or sidewalk or in any public park.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Elsewhere, you might buy a “grill,” only to find yourself with a pellet smoker, which has more in common with your indoor oven than a Weber kettle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
"We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer," Pirro said.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
Instead, Voyager relies on a small nuclear power plant, drawing hundreds of watts from the radioactive decay of a pellet of plutonium.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
With a big customer unable to accept shipments, Enviva found itself with a surplus of pellets to sell on the red-hot spot market, where prices had shot to roughly three times their normal range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
In all, the executives obligated Enviva to purchase more than $650 million of wood pellets over the next three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Bellis said he could spot 68 different grades of wool as he had worked through the fleeces, with the best destined for formal wear while others ended up as slug pellets.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
They fire cartridges, known as "birdshot", containing 200 to 400 small metal pellets.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Falcons, hawks, and owls swallow fur, bones, and feathers as well as meat, then regurgitate, or “cast,” the unused parts in tidy pellets.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The scientists calculated the balance of nutrients in edible portions of whole wild fish, used within pelleted salmon feed in Norway, compared to the farmed salmon fillets.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
When the grizzly family found the pelleted livestock grain they gorged for about an hour.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2020
Shrimp are fed a pelleted diet and are raised until they’re the proper size.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
The RNA precipitate was pelleted by centrifuging at 4,000 r.p.m. for 10 min at 4 °C. The pellet was rinsed with 1 ml 70% ethanol, air dried, and dissolved in RNase-free water.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
Tell Gordon I'm bringing in one hundred twenty thousand two hundred forty-five metric tons of pelleted uranexite.
From Masters of Space by Robert Lee Berry
When monsoon rains start pelleting down once again, they cover themselves with colorful plastic sheets, some laughing, singing and dancing as the water seeps through, leaving them soaking wet.
From US News ● Aug. 12, 2014
She stayed in Cuba four weeks, kept pelleting Castro with the pleas of her contacts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patera Covers.—In cases where the style of ornament permits of it, patera covers are used instead of pelleting.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
