pounding
Example Sentences
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“The hate, the fearmongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that’s trying to hijack our league will not win,” White said, pounding the table.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then comes the sound, clams tossed in hot pans, cleavers pounding roast pork, a Cantonese rock ballad barely rising above the crowd.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
"I was shaking, I was just shaking and my heart was pounding," Urmston told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
More than 14,000 people in Taiwan have fled their homes, and many shops remain closed, as a typhoon pounding Japan's remote southwestern islands swept towards China on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
We will keep pounding the dolerite underneath until the obelisk is completely freed from the quarry.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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