Sentence examples for but pummel from inspiring English sources

Mansplaining, patronising and hectoring, he trolled the questioners, seeking not to persuade but pummel.

They all know they don't have the power to ban him, but pummel him with the threat of constituency visits with backbench MPs and he'll never take the risk.

The turning point was Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011, which mostly skirted the city but pummeled other coastal areas of the state.

A work like "Danse Sauvage" (1913) remains a shocker: an exuberant dance consisting of nothing but pummeling piano tone-clusters for both hands.

This not only hurts the uninsured, but pummels states directly by increasing the cost of Medicaid, the federal-state programme that provides health care for the poor (and also pays for prescription drugs for the elderly, not covered under Medicare).

It's already "War and Peace" out there in the vegetable patch, what with the unhealthy trend of swift but pummeling rainfall and the climate's hot flashes, not to mention the cutworm munching through the cabbage.

It's called Electric Glitter Boogie for a reason and just as Bon Scott's tighter-than-tight Faberges left nothing to the imagination, Power lay down some simple but pummelling boogie rock.

COR's stock soared $8.46, or 43percentto to $28.20, but investors pummeled Millennium's stock.

Shares of COR soared $8.46, or 43percentto to $28.20, but investors pummeled Millennium's stock.

Against Scotland, still persevering but increasingly pummelled, Sangakkara struck his fourth consecutive century in ODI cricket.

But the pummeling to which the city was subjected during several months was worse than even the hardiest residents expected.