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Example sentences for "pummelling"

Lexicographically close words:
pumice; pumiceous; pumila; pummel; pummelled; pump; pumped; pumping; pumpkin; pumpkins
  1. Ha, a nice way of making friends--pummelling each other to pieces and upsetting my ship," retorted Captain Gillespie.

  2. The officer came up, and finding them engaged in such a peaceful conversation, stood amazed; though Don Quixote, to be sure, still lay on his back unable to move from pure pummelling and plasters.

  3. Sinking his fingers into nothing--a shadow boxer pummelling frenziedly at space.

  4. The grotesque memory--the madman pummelling the air.

  5. Gin and Jews swarmed along the Avenue, and I have seen gangs of soldiers of rival regiments, but oftener of rival nationalities, pummelling each other in the highways, until they were marched off by the Provosts.

  6. Fancy our horror when, on the crowd making way, we saw Tug pummelling away at the Honorable Master MacTurk!

  7. Now there was in that place a mortar-pit, into the midst of which he fell, and Noureddin fell to cuffing and pummelling him, and one of the blows smote his teeth, dyeing his beard with his blood.

  8. Down fell the hunchback, whilst the broker called to the watchman of the market and fell on the dead man, pummelling and throttling him in the excess of his drunken rage.

  9. And again she began her pummelling with redoubled energy.

  10. I've been pummelling dough every day at five in the morning for the last six weeks, and still not a single roll has turned out decently.


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