What is "pulverized"

Usage examples of "pulverized".

Admiral Turner, first to admit that Tarawa had not been bombarded long enough or well enough, was determined that this island should be properly pulverized.

There were neckless little runts who would be pulverized by one modest hit from a Blades defenseman, refrigerator-sized brutes, and tall, sleek geeks Gemma could envision being blown over by the passing breeze created by a fast-skating teammate.

The idea that, when we destroy words, what is left is neither mere noise nor arbitrary, pure elements, but other words, which, when pulverized in turn, will set free still other words - this idea is at once the negative of all the modem science of languages and the myth in which we now transcribe the most obscure and the most real powers of language.

Doxin sat by an interlaboratory communication station and cheered as he saw one of the Rebel corvettes crumble, disintegrating into a cloud of pulverized metal plate and escaping fuel and coolant gases.

Prentiss Petersham, in his brief scraping, had removed nearly all the vestiges of pulverized mortar that edged the broken bricks.

Clay soils may call for the free use of the harrow and roller used in some sort of alternation before they are sufficiently pulverized.

It is a curious fact that the Aztecs also took the dried tobacco leaf in the pulverized form of snuff.

Dram roared orders, and a dozen disrupters opened fire at once, the joined energy blasts blowing the whole upper floor of the building apart in a shower of rubble and reddish clouds of pulverized bricks.

The entire room was faintly illuminated by an irridescent glow, as if someone had pulverized colorful terrestrial flowers on the enameled white of the instrument panels.

Seven Jumbos had been pulverized by direct hits, and one more had been crushed when caught between two blasts.

Plus, I wanted to ask why he let himself get pulverized by paintballs that one depressing night.

The track had been pulverized to a fine grey dust and in the distance the dull green shapes of Army tents floated above the shimmering grass, a windsock hanging limp and the dust of a plane that had just landed lying like a pall of smoke over the improvised runway.

Beside them Saryn took a small hammer and pulverized the small pieces into dust, and then swept them into one of the few plastic buckets.

Sometimes the old battlers are actually fooled by public approval into believing they really care for one another, but this mood is speedily dissipated when presently they retire to bed to lie in the darkness, wondering why they had not given each other pulverized glass somewhere between the paper and the wooden, when they still had a chance to carry on with a mate who would have understood them.

A few remaining battleworthy coralskippers attempted to launch suicide runs at the Thurse, but were instantly pulverized.