pellet
Example Sentences
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One woman was detained after she was shot with a pellet gun and went to a hospital in Tehran for treatment, a close friend said.
Once she had taken a BB pellet out of the wing of a hawk.
From Literature
"I . . . uh . . . I'm doing an experiment. You know—how feeding meat to an animal compares with just giving it pellets and stuff."
From Literature
“The ground rumbled and shook—as when you felled a big tree. But there wasn’t much noise … Ash fell damp and cool like mud. Coarse pellets seemed to come straight down,” Buzz remembered.
From Literature
Patrick Wilson plays one of the nervous teachers who have been issued pellet guns in anticipation of another attack.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
