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maul

[mawl] / mɔl /


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Becognee crashed over from a maul, and the flanker's turnover at the end of the half ended a frantic opening 40 minutes in the San Mames stadium.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Matthews, who is departing Scotstoun this summer for French side Montauban, did what he has done so many times before by finishing off a rolling line-out maul to score.

From BBC May 8, 2026

Wales hit back almost immediately off line-out ball, Kelsey Jones finding Bethan Lewis before joining the back of the rolling maul and dotting down.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

The forwards took the fight to France with relish, thumping into contact, scuttling several scrums and making the driving maul a weapon against a heavier pack.

From BBC Mar. 14, 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

"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

Line-outs went astray, mauls were jammed up and disrupted, the continuity wouldn't come.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2025

Lake has been the Wales success story of this tour with his tries coming from rolling mauls, which have proved the tourists' most potent attacking threat.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2024

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

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

A woman who was mauled by a dog at a Los Angeles city animal shelter has been awarded $5.4 million by a jury.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2026

Matthew, as his own son Trev would later reflect, had always “felt mauled by Aldous and burdened by his massive family legacy,” as he said in a video interview in December, 2023.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2025

Lisa Willis, who was mauled by an XL bully months after the ban, said the attack had felt like a "horror movie" and the law was "useless".

From BBC Dec. 19, 2024

That was the Rams’ lost season, the worst Super Bowl hangover in NFL history, that had begun with a 31-10 wipeout by the Bills and featured Stafford getting mauled seven times for sacks.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2024

And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

At least Liverpool fans who witnessed the four-goal mauling at Manchester City on Saturday were able to escape after an hour.

From BBC Apr. 8, 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 big cats potentially involved in the suspected New Year's Day mauling were euthanized, state wildlife officials said.

From Barron's Jan. 2, 2026

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

Sitting there, it was easy to remember the island, the storm, the cold, the lightning, the fallen tree, the dead sparrows, and the mauling.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen




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