to a pulp
idiom
—used to say that someone or something is very badly beaten, mashed, smashed, etc.
He threatened to beat them to a (bloody) pulp.
Examples of to a pulp in a Sentence
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Place chopped orange in the bowl of a food processor; process to a pulp, about 1 minute.
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Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
Playing a character known as Kid, who works as an underground fight-club boxer who gets paid each night to put on a rubber gorilla mask and get beaten to a pulp, Patel creates a hero who is very much not some invincible combat superstar.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
Patel stars as Kid, an anonymous young man who scrapes by in an underground fight club where, donned in a monkey mask, he is beaten to a pulp by fighters for cash.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
Navarro responds to her death by berating a front desk staffer, provoking some local miners into beating her to a pulp, and finally breaking down in front of her casual hookup.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
But … he was cheated to a pulp in the 2017 World Series against the Houston Astros.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
In one of American cinema’s most riveting scenes, Vito Corleone, the Godfather, rebukes a distraught undertaker whose once-beautiful daughter has been beaten to a pulp by two young men — one of them the son of a powerful politician.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
Students at an elite Beijing high school beat a teacher to a pulp and left her to die in the street.
—Mary Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
Playing a character known as Kid, who works as an underground fight-club boxer who gets paid each night to put on a rubber gorilla mask and get beaten to a pulp, Patel creates a hero who is very much not some invincible combat superstar.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
Patel stars as Kid, an anonymous young man who scrapes by in an underground fight club where, donned in a monkey mask, he is beaten to a pulp by fighters for cash.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
Navarro responds to her death by berating a front desk staffer, provoking some local miners into beating her to a pulp, and finally breaking down in front of her casual hookup.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
But … he was cheated to a pulp in the 2017 World Series against the Houston Astros.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
In one of American cinema’s most riveting scenes, Vito Corleone, the Godfather, rebukes a distraught undertaker whose once-beautiful daughter has been beaten to a pulp by two young men — one of them the son of a powerful politician.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
Students at an elite Beijing high school beat a teacher to a pulp and left her to die in the street.
—Mary Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
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“To a pulp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20a%20pulp. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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