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maul

[mawl] / mɔl /


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After the long break, Wales kept their composure as Morgan was driven over from another rolling maul as Tandy's side found themselves in the lead.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Hooker Amy Cokayne rumbled over at the back of the maul, and replacement prop Sarah Bern also crashed through from close range twice.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

The opening scores came through his pack as Cokayne, who started and scored in the World Cup final, finished off the back of a rampaging maul and Bern powered over from close range.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

Quins had been warned over repeated infringements by referee Luc Ramos and when Will Evans was sin-binned, Sale took full advantage as Cowan-Dickie rumbled over at the back of a line-out maul.

From BBC Apr. 4, 2026

“You have very limited powers of spontaneous thought. I knew you’d thought that up a long time ago. I maul you when it’s just my mind against your mind.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

England have seeped points, looking vulnerable to sniping runs around the edge of the breakdown and to driven mauls.

From BBC May 16, 2026

"You know Maro is on your team -- he's talking to you at mauls, scrums, nominating and talking around the pitch," Heyes said.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

During his Springbok tenure, the former Free State flanker, who won 37 international caps, has innovated with strokes of genius such as naming a bench with just one back and rolling mauls in open play.

From Barron's Nov. 9, 2025

The dodgy witness is getting away with it until the wily lawyer mauls their evidence in the witness box, thanks to long nights preparing for just that moment.

From BBC Dec. 28, 2024

Wooden clubs, stone axes, mauls, spears with fire-hardened points, knives of bone and stone and dragon- glass, wicker shields, bone armor, boiled leather.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Also in June, a woman was mauled by a shark at one of Australia's most popular beaches in Sydney.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

Days before a Times reporter visited Matson’s property, a pack of wild dogs dug under his fence and fatally mauled his only surviving adult ostrich, Bam Bam.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

She went on to be the UN rights chief, a sensitive role in which she alienated some countries, especially China, which mauled her for reporting on Beijing's alleged abuses of the country's Uyghur minority group.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

More recently, he appeared in “Fallout” just long enough for his character to be mauled to death by a mutant bear.

From Salon Jan. 15, 2026

Cole nodded and told how he had pulled a handful of white hair from the bear that mauled him and then thrown it away.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

Reasons for their absence include cost-cutting, a growing preference for tightly controlled social media-led launches, and the risk that a mauling from the Cannes critics can doom a movie.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

In a sport that was long defined by a handful of powerhouse programs mauling everyone in their path, Cinderella has finally crashed college football’s party.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

Before Townsend took charge, Scotland had gone 10 years without a victory over the English, the nadir being a record 61-21 mauling at Twickenham in 2017.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2025

Romy is so caught up in her business that she’s nearly attacked by a dog on the street until a handsome stranger gives a whistle and stops the mauling moments before disaster.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2024

That was when he relived the nightmare of the mauling and felt the ache of being alone, the fear, and yes, still, the anger.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen




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