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Answer for the clue "Beanbag contents ", 7 letters:
pellets

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n. (plural of pellet English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: pellet )

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Pellets are small spherical to ovoid or rod-shaped grains that are common component of many limestones . They are typically 0.03 to 0.3 mm long and composed of carbonate mud ( micrite ). Their most common size is 0.04 to 0.08 mm. Pellets typically lack ...

Usage examples of pellets.

Even as they touched the ground, their small guns flicked deadly explosive pellets that picked off the dazed League soldiers who still sought to fight.

The atomic pellets from his pistol exploded amid the bank of giant tubes.

Guns went off, the explosion of their atomic pellets rocking the night.

The blinding flare of the atomic pellets darkened the soft nebula glow.

But wherever those pellets blasted the strange invaders, the rubbery men simply melted.

As the angry blizzard raged, she faced the lash of stinging pellets and squinted her eyes open, then turned away and took another few steps.

The ice was just as frozen, the tiny pellets of wind-driven snow just as hard.

Sometimes, however, this lack of caution backfired, because Mercedes would be on all fours hiding behind a lilac bush or some tulips, and she would pop up with her pitching arm going like balls of fire as soon as Harlan entered the invisible but well-marked sphere of her range, and without fail her sudden appearance, plus the accuracy of her pellets, would give the big blubbery man such a start that on several occasions he actually fell down from surprise, and he almost always emerged from these sneak attacks with his heart thundering in a terribly unhealthy manner.

From two other devices, which made a fearful racket, poured a hail of metal pellets trailing red sparks.

He would willingly sleep under a stormy sky if he had half a dozen pellets to soften the spasms of his demon-tortured legs.

All the power Cerix really wanted now was the power to get a large enough supply of pellets to make his pain go away.

Stray pellets tore his earlobe and the top of his shoulder and the spreading fingers of the trailing shot cup raked his neck, painting it with blood.

In the bathroom, I found a can of Comet so close to empty the remaining cleanser had formed pellets that rattled around the bottom like dried peas.

Gerard and I in due course found ourselves in the casualty department of the local major hospital where he was whisked off to regions unseen and I sat with my bare newly-washed arm on a small table while a middle-aged nursing sister expertly and unemotionally picked pellets out with a glittering instrument reminiscent of tweezers.

He had stopped bleeding both inside and out, it appeared, but several pellets were inaccessible to tweezers and he would have to stay overnight until the theatre staff returned in force in the morning.