Example Sentences

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And in nearby Lake Charles, fierce winds had pulverized much of the area during Hurricane Laura, but Delta had unleashed flooding.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2020

To Bradford Smith, head of the Voyager imaging team, the spots were evidence that meteorite impacts had pulverized the gray surface, exposed an underlying layer of ice and spewed it out in all directions.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still remembered one foster mother, an older woman who had smelled like cloyingly sweet powder, like someone had pulverized rose petals and sprinkled them on her clothes.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

The German High Command had given orders to pulverize that particular area at that particular time; and hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of German guns, in a micrometrically-synchronized symphony of firepower, had pulverized it.

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

The five asteroids had arrived unseen until the last few seconds and had pulverized their targets with accuracy of less than half a mile of error.

From The Runaway Asteroid by Cooper, Michael D., [pseud.]