PUMMEL in a Sentence

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1. Swinging wildly, Pam tried to pummel her brother around the head and shoulders.

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 Meanings and Examples of PUMMEL
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pummel
 v.  beat or pound with fists; hit or strike heavily and repeatedly
Classic Sentence:
1  Some of these were settled by the men-at-arms with brief ceremony; the shafts of their battle-axes, and pummels of their swords, being readily employed as arguments to convince the more refractory.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  Swinging wildly, Pam tried to pummel her brother around the head and shoulders.
2  The most recent forecasts estimate up to 2 feet of snow will pummel the area between New York and Maine by Saturday – an accumulation that would be one of the largest ever for a single storm.
3  They drilled horizontally, then pummelled shale with sand and water, a process known as fracking, until the rock relinquished its oil and gas.