Pounding used in a sentence

Pounding in a sentence as a noun

Is 14 hours of pounding on a keyboard writing algorithms hacking?

These days you would be asked to draw a picture of a hammer pounding in a nail on a whiteboard.

When I don't want to be where I'm at I just start pounding on it until I arrive at something I do want.

A pharmacy is nearby, but my head is pounding too hard to read the labels so I go to the pharmacist.

There's nothing like the fiery, strident rhetoric of a manifesto to get one's heart pounding.

"Because, while pounding in a few hundred nails with my trusty flathead, I noticed that it was taking really a great deal of work.

Instead all I hear is 'chest pounding howls' on why it's so cool to do a startup, seek VCs, join an incubator and make a killer exit.

The alternative to pounding fish oil supplements is simply stop eating so much refined seed and vegetable oils.

If I'm going to the door from inside, to look through the peephole to see who is pounding on the door and yelling for me to open it, I would not find it helpful for the door to unlock itself.

That kind of amplitude abuse is the equivalent of pounding very hard on the keyboard for long periods of time - it will break sooner than it would normally have, and can rightfully be considered abuse.

I always get a picture of sysadmin-like greybeards pounding away furiously at their keyboards the moment anyone suggests that some software, somewhere be written in something other than C or perl.

That advantage is compounded when it's the structure that happens to be used by a whole bunch of YC companies, since YC has a lot of experience pounding corporations into a shape that is acceptable for next funding rounds.

Fortunately lots of folks dedicated to working through the challenges to make things better and its always great to have Larry pounding his fist on the table to add some urgency to an already frenetic environment.

At nights, I would lie awake for hours - heart pounding - thinking about how I have not done anything useful or significant ever, and how everyone I loved would in the best case be dying painfully of liver failure in old age or something like that.

I'm good, but not scholarly material; I'm good at bringing together various technologies and finding atypical solutions to practical problems, but I suck at pounding on the same important issue for years and years at a time.

At the risk of pounding the Jobs-is-dead meme too hard, this reminds me of a good story I read recently about Steve Jobs:Jobs tells the VP that if the garbage in his office is not being emptied regularly for some reason, he would ask the janitor what the problem is.