pellet
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It is illegal to discharge a pellet or BB gun outside an authorized target range in the city of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
When the first claims of pellet gun use, external emerged last week, Delhi police, external called it "completely false and misleading".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
Outdoor cooking has never been more confusing, what with pellet smokers that call themselves grills and charcoal grills that require electricity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Or it could be bones and teeth from an owl pellet, which only Fred would have thought was cool.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Scientists predict that the plastic pellets will continue to wash up on North East beaches as the clean up continues.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Researchers identified five bacterial families that were consistently found in fresh Douglas fir-derived pellets but absent after certain periods of aging.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
In pellets produced from termites feeding on natural hardwood, the estimated amount fell as much as 190-fold between fresh samples and those aged for a year.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
“She survived devastating trauma, two pellets lodged in her head, and a relentless infection that gradually destroyed part of her jaw — yet she continued adapting, searching for food and fighting to remain alive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The pellets under the skin of Boxer’s leg smarted painfully.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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
BAC DNA was pelleted by centrifugation at 13,000 r.p.m. and 4 °C for 20 min.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
He pelleted and tested tracer, igniter, and incendiary compositions; he took his turn at burning out rejects.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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
