Sentence examples for waves pummel from inspiring English sources

"There's a storm coming," says Ross as the waves pummel the Cornish rocks below.

Mr. Krizan said he had been resting in his kayak when he saw the waves pummel the surfers.

Instead of exporting refugees, Sierra Leone now imports them from Liberia: 30,000 so far, says the UN.Meanwhile, on Freetown's Lumley beach, dozens of people congregate every Sunday to frolic in the waves, pummel volleyballs and slurp beers at one of the many bars that punctuate the long stretch of pristine white sand.

They are meditations on the space of the sky amplified by the lines of rigging, or the menacing rush of waves pummeling a hull in an unforgiving sea.

Entering the sea, modest waves pummeled large stones over and onto my feet, leading me to exit the waters.

Joyce, 41, a food and beverage manager whose nine cats were carried away when a giant wave pummeled them, cried when she spoke about what she had lost and then quickly apologized for her tears.

A statement that "the past decades have seen a climate-related downward trend in the extent of Arctic sea ice coverage" does not appear in the final report, nor does a description of extreme weather events being "made more destructive by a reduction in sea ice and an increase in ice free periods," since without protective sea ice, large waves can pummel fragile Arctic coastlines during storms.

Building-size rocks can blow up overhead, unleashing shock waves that pummel the ground.

Traveling at nearly jetliner speeds, the first huge waves began pummeling southern Thailand an hour after the quake.

Their waves of pummelling electronic noise showed that Green Man is a much broader church than the hippy folkfest some mistake it for.

Over millennia, the ocean waves have pummelled the coast into an alluring corrugation of beaches and cliffs, and today they toy with surfers and provide a backdrop for dream holidays.