pummel
Example Sentences
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By Dec. 20 — even before holiday storms pummeled Southern California — the mountains were looking verdant.
From Los Angeles Times
A chorus of boos—boo-birds were on this team all afternoon—pummeled the field like a hailstorm.
Miami is so set on pummeling the quarterback, in fact, that it eve disrupts their practice routines.
We saw that again against Chelsea, who pummelled them for an hour before Watkins came on to make it 11 Villa wins in a row.
From BBC
A San Diego man was killed Wednesday morning after a tree fell on him, the third death linked to the storm pummeling Southern California over the holiday, the San Diego Police Department confirmed.
From Los Angeles Times
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