pulverize

Example Sentences

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Unlike bullets from typical handguns, the blast effect of an AR-15’s shots fans out within a victim’s body, pulverizes tissue and leaves gaping holes on exiting.

From Los Angeles Times

Why, wondered anyone with a passing understanding of how pasta is made, would someone pulverize a thing, then remake it into the very same thing?

From Washington Post

Emerald Bay was formed sometime during the Pleistocene Epoch, which lasted from 1.8 million to 11,500 years ago, when glaciers pulverized the surrounding rock, creating a depression.

From New York Times

When he returned in February 2016, he intended to focus on wind itself, to log the ways it pulverized the place.

From New York Times

In Bakhmut, a soldier who allowed himself to be identified only by his war name, “Expert,” said the pulverized city in the Donbas’ Donetsk region “has become a stronghold ” for Ukraine.

From Seattle Times