All at once De Scuderi heard a continuous fire of abuse and cursing, and perceived a man making his way through the thick of the crowd by the help of his fists and by punching people in the ribs.
Don't forget to say I want a punching bag and a pair of skates.
He accordingly went round to the door and, seizing a hoe, commenced punching one of the pigs vigorously.
She commenced her reign by punching the sick man's pillows, and having shaken him into consciousness by this means, gave him a dose of physic, after first tasting it herself from the bottle.
And indeed at that very moment the boy came rushing to the galley again, bawling out that Mr. Mackenzie was lying flat on his stomach in his bunk, punching the air with his fists and rending it with his language.
The children, suddenly quieted, laughing on their pillow, amused themselves by punching each other.
He was throwing himself about in the center of the cell, slamming his fists everywhere, on himself, on the walls, on the floor, and stumbling about punchingempty space.
Maillochon, who was following him, kept punching him in the back to express his joy.
Dubuis crushed him with his enormous weight and kept punching him without taking breath or knowing where his blows fell.
Then he had the close-packed mass of non-humanity in his sights; he tramped the pedal and beganpunching buttons.
Pickering pointed to a young man with dull brick colored hair, who was punching out some kind of a problem on a small computing machine.
Von Schlichten had the handset of the car's radio, and was punching out the combination of the Company guardhouse on Gongonk Island; he held down the signal button until he got an answer.
There's nothing to eat, nothing to see, and nobody to talk to but a lot of Reubens who don't know a punching bag from a lobster salad.
I was punching then for old Bill Toomey, on the San Miguel.
The fitters and the assistants and the apprentices are hammering and punching and gauging, and otherwise technically disporting themselves round their enormous patients, and their language, as caught in snatches, is beautifully unintelligible.
Cyclopean masonry," grunted the Professor, punchingwith a stick a monolith of seventeen feet cube.
I was punching cows for an old fellow called Sam Ford; a man so mean you could pull the pith out of a horse-hair and then put his soul inside, and it would rattle.
You never know what may happen when you are 'punching cattle' and oftentimes by having your pony handy it will save you a lot of trouble, to put it mildly.
This she passes rapidly under the press if worked by hand, and still more rapidly if worked by steam, punching and cutting at the rate of from fifty to sixty disks in a minute.
If you go on wearing those masculine things much longer, you'll have Jake punching your head for little slips of that kind.
He's not strong; and though he's got grit, he hasn't got what I call punching power.
Secondly, in some large railroad and other shops the workmen are given a variety of tasks in succession, so as to be more versatile, more useful in emergencies, than if ever punching steel, or threading bolts.
He took a punching machine, reversed its action, and had a riveting machine which turned out work twelve times as fast as a skilful workman.
And I made up a riddle about the conductor punching the tickets and they didn't get mad.
It was about a conductor punching tickets on the train," said Laddie.
Anyhow this little boy came along behind me in the crowd and began asking something about a conductor and punching tickets.
Mr Robert Ransome had remarked my method of punching holes in the paper by a hand-punch, the places of the holes being guided by holes in a piece of card, and said that they could furnish me with something better.
Mr May sent me the punching machine, the prototype of all now used in the Observatory.
Application of Hydraulic Power to the Punching of Large Holes in Iron Bars, and Plates of Great Thickness.
Of course they can be mended by punching holes and riveting a piece in; but they require good punches and a matrix, for which a piece of hardened wood may be substituted, and some skill and patience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bore; boring; penetration; perforation; piercing; puncture
