pummeled
Example Sentences
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The year after that, heavy rains pummeled the burn scar, burying buildings and vehicles under mud and debris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The country's third-largest city was pummeled by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday, along with swaths of Colombia's coffee region and western coast.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Leveraged ETFs tied to chipmaker SK Hynix were pummeled Tuesday, amid a punishing selloff in semiconductor stocks this month as whiplash around the powerful artificial-intelligence trade continues.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
That comes in the wake of yet another record-breaking heat wave that has pummeled the Northern Hemisphere.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The wind pummeled the balloon as if it were an inverted punching bag, then tore it to pieces and cast shreds of its nine thousand yards of silk as far as half a mile away.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
