Sentence examples for pummeled the area from inspiring English sources

The weather hampered efforts to learn the extent of the damage done when missiles fired from four Navy warships and one submarine pummeled the area.

Even as many residents were reveling in the restoration of their heat and lights, they were bracing for new power failures as fierce winds and heavy wet snow pummeled the area.

In recent weeks business in Washington, D.C. ground to a halt as record snowfalls pummeled the area and a sparring match over national health care reform hijacked the political conversation.

Even the recent floods that pummeled the area have provoked finger-pointing; some say they never would have happened, or been as bad, if environmentalists and their liberal allies hadn't blocked construction of controversial water storage projects.

Russian jets pummeled the area for the next month, conducting more than 130 air raids on villages and towns around Mount Turkmen, forcing residents in the area to flee their homes and find shelter in tents in the village of al-Yamdiya on the Syrian Turkish border.

But a review of emergency radio traffic recordings found that fire crews were dispatched to at least 10 spots in Sonoma County in response to reports of sparking electrical wires and exploding transformers as high winds pummeled the area on the night of Oct. 8, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

The most recent forecasts estimate up to 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow will pummel the area between New York and Maine by Saturday – an accumulation that would be one of the largest ever for a single storm.

As European tourists sunned themselves on Sri Lanka's southern beaches in 2009, at the other end of the island Sharmila was cowering on a squalid overcrowded beach as scores of rockets from multi-barrelled launchers pummelled the area.

Six weeks after the storm pummeled the region, most of the recreation area remains closed, as the National Park Service continues to clean up and restore essential elements like drinking water and sewage treatment.

The storm that pummeled the Washington area Dec. 19 is the largest one-day snow in more than 70 years.

In the weeks and months since Hurricane Sandy pummeled the New York City area, cleanup crews have hauled off thousands of tons of wreckage, much of it left on city streets by people trying to piece their lives back together.