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pounded
adjective as in beaten
adjective as in mashed
Example Sentences
On NAFTA, Lighthizer’s willingness to tell business groups to pound sand was made possible by his skillful navigation of Congress, which has to sign off on comprehensive trade deals.
The boots weigh only two pounds, so they feel more like sneakers.
He extracted pounds of the material from several locations across San Benito Mountain, shoveled them into Ziploc bags, and shipped them to a pair of labs for analysis.
This book is a whopper, you won’t be disappointed when you receive your book with over 460 pages that collectively weigh over twelve pounds.
It’s not cheap, but it weighs just over a pound in a slim package that doesn’t take up too much room in my pack.
Grad rockets pounded Donetsk and Luhansk this week, and human rights monitors say Kiev is behind the carnage.
They buried the dead, delivered the coal and the milk, and women police auxiliaries pounded the streets.
You remember—Romney and Ryan pounded on Obama about that $716 billion.
I've been pounding this drum for a long time, and it needs to be pounded some more.
Sensitive flesh is pounded raw, and muscles are stretched to their limits.
At the mention of the doughty Scot I pounded the floor with my crutch and repeated "Dug—dug—dug."
Others pounded the skins with their hands, and still others pounded with hammers of reindeer horn.
The deacon pounded on the porch with his nearly finished leg, and grew red in the face.
Get, at a druggist's, half an ounce of each of these articles, and have them mixed and pounded together in a mortar.
Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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