Used in a Sentence

pellets

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pellets.

Editorial note

People simply loved the game, and they couldn't get enough of clearing boards of dots, power-pellets and ghosts.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pellets gathered in one view.

noun

A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

noun

A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.

noun

One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pellets.

noun

A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

noun

A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.

noun

One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

noun

(heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).

Example sentences

1

People simply loved the game, and they couldn't get enough of clearing boards of dots, power-pellets and ghosts.

2

A solar powered mass-driver could sling a steady stream of pellets from Earth orbit into Solar non-orbit using existing technology.

3

There are BBs, lead.144 (.22?) wadcutter pellets and what appears to be bird shot as well.

4

There is also a small dead zone in the center sometimes - but you can usually resolve this by removing/adding pellets.

5

Were these the guys who adapted their technology to fire fertiliser pellets into the ground from the air, for agricultural purposes?

6

Its a big pile of 'stuff' with pellets of interesting materials every few meters.

7

One bag of pellets is one month, one pad per week (for my cat) and it's about ~$10-12 from Amazon (in bulk).

8

I'd choose the million little BB pellets a day because my body can recover from that in between.

9

At the end of the video, when the guy closes the door, there's a wait period of about five seconds between two pellets.

10

I can imagine a shotgun shell using ceramic pellets (probably with non-spheroid polygonal shapes, for extra damage).

11

It could go down the hill (as it would do if pac man got one of the super pellets), or it could ignore the hill altogether.

12

Or alternatively instead of placing stationary fuel pellets in your flight path, have them accelerated by an external accelerator to as high a speed as possible.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pellets in a sentence?

People simply loved the game, and they couldn't get enough of clearing boards of dots, power-pellets and ghosts.

What does pellets mean?

A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

What part of speech is pellets?

pellets is commonly used as noun.