Sentence examples for she pummels from inspiring English sources

As she talks, her flesh-coloured Perspex ring (from Next, she says) catches the light as she pummels, boxes and burrows with expressive hands.

"No son of mine is gonna grow up to be no coward," she screams as she pummels him with her broom.

And Manrique's Manuela can be a bore, especially when she pummels the reader with allusions to Don Quixote, or with trite revelations ("Had I fallen in love with a man whose true mistress was war?").

Silvia's authority is a matter of brute force: she pummels Velvet for sneaking out of the house at night, for taking bread before dinner is served, for talking back, or, on one terrible occasion, for gazing in open pleasure at musicians on a subway platform, punishing her for exactly the quality that Ginger most prizes: "You stupid girl, you give everything away!

But her big number is one of the weakest -- "Fly, Fly Away" -- and unlike the rest (whose moments in the spotlight are played at just the right level of intensity), Butler is so determined to turn her song into a showstopper that she pummels it into the ground, complete with Bette Midler-like arm-movements (as if she's gonna literally fly away) and an unfortunate attempt to get soulful.

Then she pummelled the floor, so we knew the baby had died.

She pummeled a loudspeaker and beat her chest, very softly, a physical equivalent of her earlier verbal tone.

He kneaded her icing bags; she pummeled his rolling pin like an executive stress toy.

Four games later, she pummeled a cross-court backhand winner for another break.

Ms. Mattila was so intense, possessed and exposed in the role that she pummeled you into submission.

Ending with Liszt's demonic and stunningly difficult "Totentanz" ("Dance of Death"), she pummeled the piece into submission with little feeling for the mystical realms the composer explores in this wildly experimental work.