pound out

Idioms and Phrases

Produce, especially on a keyboard, as in I can pound out another résumé , or She was pounding out song after song on the piano . [c. 1900]

Example Sentences

The wireless man turned to his printer and began to pound out the message on the keyboard.

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But of course, that was the thing they had found in the passage, which Ricky had used to pound out their answer to Rupert.

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Then the young girl began to pound out the Raindrop Prelude while the other turned over the pages.

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If you put me in a stamp-mill you couldn't pound out anything else.

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The Indians came to Isle Royale to pound out native copper from the rocks.

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