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Example sentences for "pounded"

Lexicographically close words:
pounces; pouncing; pound; poundage; pounde; pounder; pounders; poundes; pounding; pounds
  1. I pounded away until after eleven, and got off a fat bundle of cables, which Sherman took to the office for me.

  2. They blew and pounded steadily for nearly half an hour, and the more they played, the more enthusiastic the crowds became.

  3. Small detachments of cavalry, infantry and artillery pounded along the road toward Louvain.

  4. It appeals to some of the colleagues to take refuge with a Court in distress, but I can see little attraction in the idea of settling down inside the line of forts and waiting for them to be pounded with heavy artillery.

  5. Afterward, the grains were roasted and ground, or pounded between stones, and unleavened bread was made by mixing this crude flour with water, and baking in the form of cakes.

  6. Take a cupful of the white meat of chicken, pounded to a paste in a mortar, and half a cup of whole-wheat crust or zwieback crumbs.

  7. The rough rice is first ground between large stones, and then conveyed into mortars, and pounded with iron-shod pestles.

  8. Chop an onion fine, and boil it in milk; when done, add the gravy from the game, and thicken with pounded cracker.

  9. A sack of pemican, or pounded meat, which we found in a cache, where it had been left for us, was a great acquisition, as our supplies were nearly exhausted.

  10. Footnote AH: Pemican, of which I have already spoken several times, is the Indian name for the dried and pounded meat which the natives sell to the traders.

  11. Cut in slices, dried, pounded and reduced to a farina, it forms with bread fruit the principal food of the natives.

  12. We have pounded its head properly, so it will not return to you," "But what of its mate?

  13. Then its head is pounded to a jelly, for the servants are agreed that, if this precaution is omitted, it will revive during the night and come and coil itself on the chest of its murderer.

  14. With sugar, pounded rice and other cheap adulterating materials are mixed, and the whole sold at full price.

  15. Pepper is mixed with pounded nutshells; port wine is manufactured outright (out of alcohol, dye-stuffs, etc.

  16. This external plaster, indeed, is probably not Roman, though it is composed to some extent of pounded brick.

  17. It is composed of carbonate of lime imperfectly burned, of silicious sand, and pounded Roman brick, in almost equal proportions.

  18. He pounded furs with a stick, salted them, sorted them, took them to the tanners, brought them home.

  19. It was a slab house, with a mud chimney and a nice floor of pounded blue clay.

  20. But once before the door, with Lefever close at hand, he pounded the cracked panels till the windows shook.

  21. Logan's hands came up in turn, and Morgan still pounded for some one to serve.

  22. While a firefighter's ax futilely pounded on the outside, she seized the wide bar of the door and ripped it open, to the sound of wrenching metal.

  23. Van de Vliet pounded on the button controls of the air lock, but there was no response.

  24. This pemmican was put up by the Red River half-breeds, and consisted of jerked buffalo meat pounded fine and mixed with buffalo fat and dried berries, and then packed in large bags of rawhide called parfleches.

  25. One tube, formed with pounded glass, was very nearly an inch long, namely .

  26. A portion, however, of this mud, which when wet resembled pounded chalk, was found by Professor Ehrenberg to be partly composed of siliceous-shielded infusoria.

  27. They wrestled, the company pounded the table, betting hoarsely, until Half-past went to the floor, and his plate with him.

  28. And a great deal more, while they pounded with their boots.

  29. He threw one hand over the opposite shoulder, and the bag bumped and pounded on his back as he ran along.

  30. The other men must have pounded against the rocks, for none of them came ashore but the head man, and him I knew only by the ring on his finger.

  31. Many times he composed himself and closed his eyes for slumber to overtake him; but his blood pounded with too strong desire, and as many times his eyes opened and he murmured wearily, "Wisht it was sun-up.

  32. He pounded the air all up fine there, Thursday.

  33. If the spinal cord could be pulled by a dentist and put away in pounded ice every time it gets a hot-box, spinal meningitis would lose its stinger.

  34. Kells, with an agile bound, reached the table and pounded it with his fist, confronting the giant.

  35. An' Gulden pounded on the table an' addressed himself to Cleve.

  36. They could not think for the sick headaches that pounded incessantly behind their eyes.

  37. When Lee developed vomiting spasms that would not stop, Charles Orsino pounded on the bulkhead with his fists and yelled, his voice thunderous in the metal compartment, for an hour.

  38. The room was bare, with a floor of pounded earth.

  39. I knocked; no one came, and I pounded again.

  40. At your feet, along a well-kept road of pounded shells, and across bridges framed of the skeletons of whales buttressed with moss-grown rocks, roll automobiles and victorias in the pursuit of pleasure.

  41. The only food was nettle-tops and the tender shoots of the pigeon-berry, boiled with a little corn pounded on the hominy block.

  42. His arm had been cut off, he told, by a German soldier, who had made his mother cry, when he had rushed up and pounded him with his fists to make him desist.

  43. Their living had been manifestly nothing but fish and corn pounded into coarse meal.

  44. A few kernels of corn, pounded into meal between two stones, and mixed with water, in a cup made from rolling up a strip of birch bark, afforded a good dinner for an Indian.

  45. Its seeds are pounded by the Mongols to flour and mixed with their tea.

  46. He pounded drugs and ran about London with phials for charitable chemists.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pounded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    pounded mace; pounded sugar