pellet

Example Sentences

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When he’d opened the door, the ground had been covered in golf-ball-size ice pellets for as far as he could see.

From Literature

One woman was detained after she was shot with a pellet gun and went to a hospital in Tehran for treatment, a close friend said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once she had taken a BB pellet out of the wing of a hawk.

From Literature

"I . . . uh . . . I'm doing an experiment. You know—how feeding meat to an animal compares with just giving it pellets and stuff."

From Literature

“The ground rumbled and shook—as when you felled a big tree. But there wasn’t much noise … Ash fell damp and cool like mud. Coarse pellets seemed to come straight down,” Buzz remembered.

From Literature