pummelling
- present participle of pummel.
Example Sentences
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The study only looked at data up to 2024, however Emerton said the heatwaves already pummelling Europe this year suggest the trend has been continuing.
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.
From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025
Hitting with depth and pummelling his forehand in particular, he stuck in the rallies with the defensive Medvedev and returned serve well.
From BBC • May 27, 2025
Painful enough without knowing the early morning alarm call will have come with the jet-lag feeling of a pummelling and late-night home journey from Leicester.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2024
The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove; not in thumping and pummelling king Amulius's herdsmen.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Walpole, Horace
