pummeling

Example Sentences

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On this night, the mercenaries prevailed, in a pummeling so relentless and a silencing so rapid that a three-peat appeared all but inevitable: Dodgers 14, Blue Jays 2.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Miami is so set on pummeling the quarterback, in fact, that it eve disrupts their practice routines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

After pummeling Jamaica, Melissa was forecast to head north and cross over eastern Cuba on Tuesday night, while continuing to bring rain and heavy winds to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

Open final delivered a new scenario: Carlos Alcaraz pummeling Sinner right into Sinner’s favorite surface.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 7, 2025

And other sounds came to them on the pummeling wind—the roaring beat of an engine, the creak and howl of great masses of wood being crushed together, human cries.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman