mauled
Example Sentences
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He used to present as a staid mainline Episcopalian, but now he denounces that church and speaks of being “mauled by demons.”
From Salon
In another seminar, Praet showed off a police photograph of a man who had just been mauled by a police dog.
From Los Angeles Times
A man and a woman in charge of an American XL Bully called "Beast" that mauled Jack to death were jailed last year.
From BBC
They were mauled badly as they rumbled slowly down a highway in broad daylight.
From BBC
He also wrote that “any support aired by anyone on the West for the Russian position gets mauled and derided by pro-West pundits” and that “self-censorship by Western media will only get more wicked.”
From Washington Post
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