pulverize

Back when McIlroy first rose to stardom, he turned heads with his ability to pulverize the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Then they used a grinder to pulverize the frozen sweets into a coarse powder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

Do not pulverize in a machine, just chop fine, then mix with crumbs and coconut in a bowl and set aside.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

"Because there is more comet dust closer to the Sun, we had expected collisions there would pulverize the pebbles that much faster," says Jenniskens.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024

Every time I got on the mat, Clarisse would pulverize me.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

In this recipe at Food & Wine, David Chang "pulverizes the kombu to a powder and blends it with softened butter to baste striped bass fillets."

From Salon ● May 14, 2024

For Alcaraz, who positively pulverizes the ball, the drop shot plays a different role.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK—Every year, Ranga Dias pulverizes about $100,000 in diamonds, crushing them to a gray powder he tosses in the trash.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 26, 2021

But in rare instances, “we have seen a failure mode where the core pulverizes and falls back into the hole.”

From Scientific American ● Aug. 12, 2021

The soil plowed at this time and left rough is acted upon physically by frost which pulverizes it, and chemically by rain and air which renders plant food available.

From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich

Such was the likely impact that ice immediately pulverized into water, mixing with debris to create a tsunami of mud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Drizzle with the melted butter and olive oil, then toss gently until the cracker pieces are coated but not pulverized.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

Boos followed Venezuela's interim leader Delcy Rodriguez during a visit to a Caracas neighborhood pulverized by two massive earthquakes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

The 17-year-old from Cross Ash, Monmouthshire, had been racing downhill mountain bikes since he was eight, wanting to "go fast all the time", when he crashed before a race and pulverized one of his kidneys.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

By the time Admiral Conolly was done, the Japanese beach defenses were pulverized.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Dynamite wrapped in chic pastels, they provide ammunition for a day of pulverizing emails and crushing reformer Pilates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Che drops a few chemicals into the vials, which also contain a small metal bead, and place them into a countertop device that shakes the containers, pulverizing the contents.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

In contrast, corn chips are created by pulverizing corn kernels into a dough, mixing it with water, and subjecting the slurry to intense heat and pressure using an extruder.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2023

The water’s natural capacity to store carbon can be boosted by pulverizing and adding alkaline rocks such as basalt or limestone.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 14, 2023

She leaped aside as the monster struck, pulverizing the ground in front of her.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan