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The teams traded early penalties before Springboks hooker Johan Grobbelaar drove over for the first try of the match after a powerful maul.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Malcolm Marx trundled over at the back of a rolling maul after the interval and, three minutes later, Pieter-Steph du Toit barged over after a sharp blindside break by the impressive Van den Berg.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The Springboks finished with a typical driving maul with de Villiers crashing over as Wales had no answer to their opponents.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The Bulls' afternoon worsened as a rolling maul resulted in a penalty try for the hosts and Ruan Nortje was yellow carded in the aftermath.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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

Fiji dominated the attacking statistics but Wales managed to contain them, while their set-piece superiority resulted in three of the six tries coming from driving mauls as head coach Steve Tandy's game plan proved successful.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

He made two fists that looked more like mauls than balled hands.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

An Australian school teacher mauled by a large shark at a Sydney beach says she fired a "left hook" at the predator before it dragged her underwater.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 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

He treasures that trait even as he has hidden it beneath armor to avoid “being too badly mauled by the vicissitudes of life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

The Slovak cabinet has approved a plan to shoot around a quarter of the country's brown bears, after a man was mauled to death while walking in a forest in Central Slovakia.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025

The health center was where you went for everything from a little cough to getting mauled by a bear.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Despite the scale of the electoral mauling no immediate move was made to challenge his leadership and cabinet colleagues appeared to publicly rally round.

From Barron's ● May 9, 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

Two of Scotland's best - Aaron Hickey and Ben Gannon-Doak - restored having missed the March mauling.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

“But most cat trainers will tell you that getting mauled is not a matter of if. It’s a matter of when and how bad the mauling is going to be.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith