"pound" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

pound verbo

pound + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 13
pound one's fist • pound one's head • pound one's chest • pound one's way • pound nails • ...
verbo + pound
Kolokacji: 3
begin pounding • start pounding • keep pounding
pound + preposición
Kolokacji: 28
pound on • pound into • pound out • pound down • pound against • ...
pound + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 23
pound away • pound hard • pound furiously • pound wildly • pound loudly • ...
(1) away, thin, flat, steadily
Kolokacji: 4
(2) hard, heavily, mercilessly
Kolokacji: 3
(4) wildly, frantically, madly
Kolokacji: 3
(5) loudly, gently
Kolokacji: 2
1. pound loudly = funt głośno pound loudly
2. gently pound = łagodnie funt gently pound
  • Nearer to me an electric vacuum pump was pounding gently.
  • His brother, Dennis, gently pounded a railing in the old courthouse balcony.
  • His fingers curled into a fist and he pounded gently on the arm of his chair.
  • As he sat there still pounding gently with the hammer, he felt himself for the first time remember Joey without merely dissolving into sorrow.
  • Picard gently pounded a fist into the arm of his chair.
  • Slowly, Mason closed it again into a fist and pounded gently on the table as though emphasizing some point.
  • She pounded gently on the desk top with her clenched left fist.
  • He made a fist out of his right hand and gently pounded the stone ledge of the window.
  • The surf gently pounded the sand bar and a rising wind broke the surface of the water into a sun-veined mosaic.
  • Gently pounding her desk for emphasis: "This is why we're here!
(6) repeatedly, relentlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(7) suddenly, rapidly
Kolokacji: 2

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