How to Use pummel in a Sentence

pummel

verb

• In the sedan there is no jaguar to flee or rival to pummel.
  — Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• He’s then pummeled by two men in the parking garage just before the credits roll.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• The action moves in and out of view, but one of the suspects’ legs can be seen flailing as two of the victims pummel him in the driveway.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2023
• One of the film’s most memorable sequences has Odenkirk as Hutch getting pummeled by gang of youths in a bus.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
• Their songs — driven by catchy synths and melodic bass — pummel the heart.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The downpour pummeled the town’s flat concrete roofs and wide green orchards.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Later in the inning, Masataka Yoshida pummeled a two-run shot at the top of the zone for his first big league homer.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Dons pitcher hung a slider with two strikes that Adamski pummeled to dead center.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
• The man knocked Cote to the ground and pummeled his face, stopping only when a passing driver pulled over and intervened.
  — Agreen, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
• Redfish will pummel them, stripers will clobber them, and even deep dwellers like lake trout can’t resist them.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Workers used stone axes to pummel away (not cut, as with metal axes) at the base of trunks until the trees could be tipped over.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
• After the ice storm is over, rounds of heavy rain are forecast to pummel the South this week, with some areas forecast to see more than 1 foot of rain.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2024
• Cow moose that are in survival mode by late winter have been known to pummel dog sled teams and anything else that disturbs them.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
• Price cuts have helped to bolster sales but have pummeled profit margins.
  — Simon Willis, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• There was a great spot where Candice LeRae gave her baby to the nanny and hopped the barricade to pummel Waller with kendo stick shots.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Her father turned around and allegedly began pummeling her in the head and face.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
• In a lab space one room over, prototype buoys were pummeled by water churning in wave tanks.
  — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• Advertisement Venice, which was pummeled by major floods in 2019, is one of the world’s most fragile cities.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• Their neighborhood, Rimal, once an elegant part of the city, has been pummeled by airstrikes.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• The victim is eventually surrounded and pummeled by the three people, the video shows.
  — Ali Gostanian, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The story of loss was common along the 70 miles of Mississippi coastline pummeled by the hurricane’s storm surge, which reached up to 28 feet.
  — Anita Lee, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2023
• After the pumpkin corpses are pummeled they will be composted.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• That role has now been assumed by Chew, who lawmakers pummeled during a five-hour hearing in March.
  — Drew Harwell and Taylor Lorenz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023
• On July 13, Spain pummeled Vietnam 9-0 in a friendly in Auckland.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 19 July 2023
• New homes sprouted on residential streets pummeled by the blast.
  — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
• With the bases still loaded, Cole went with a first-pitch cutter to Luis Urías and Urías didn’t miss it, pummeling the offering into his team’s bullpen for a grand slam.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• But if dollar figures and government reports don’t move you, look at the people Lunsford – a fine lawyer, I am told – is being paid to pummel in court.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 7 July 2023
• When a rare snowstorm pummeled the Palmdale area in February, closing the road on one of his routes, Ervin drove up to the blockage to capture video to send to Amazon as proof.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• Rizzo pummeled a Bello offering, but Duran got a stellar jump, making a basket catch for the third out of the frame.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• The Hornets pummeled the listless Mavericks so badly that when Dallas fell behind by 21 points in the third quarter, fans rained boos on the home team.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024