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Use maul in a sentence

Definition of maul:

  • (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
  • (verb) split (wood) with a maul and wedges
  • (verb) injure badly by beating

Sentence Examples:

Mauled as he was with many grim strokes, Kay guarded his comrade's body.

She had been mauled by a bear in her childhood and suffered from a slight limp.

This place had been badly mauled.

He turned on the light and found the maul leaning against the corner where he had left it.

This trench also had been badly mauled by the shells, and the fire from it was feeble.

The old women knocked each other on the head with their mauls.

On occasion, he had so played with Biddy and lovingly mauled her about.

The women wept and blessed us, and kissed us and mauled us.

He might maul him a little, but I won't.

He had struck a former hand once with a heavy maul.

"I have no patience to be mauled."

You never can take real pleasure again in any poetry that you have mauled in that manner.

I was strong for my age, and thought I could fight, but he gave me a proper mauling.

He looked as though he had been terribly mauled by some animal.

"I am afraid they have mauled you a little," he added.

Every baby should be "mothered" more and mauled less.

We've been fighting with monkeys, and it's they who have mauled us in this way.

As sure as I am a sinner those you are going to maul are nothing but poor harmless sheep.

He is badly mauled, but no big arteries are torn.

Axes and mauls were necessary to make a road through the snow.

Whenever a key showed its head he mauled it.

Had it not been for the bars, indeed, the red hen would have given him an awful mauling.

Philip's claw had not done all the hurt it hoped, it had yet mauled its victim cruelly.

"All strength is not attained upon a farm, and I want to swing an ax and maul again."

There are two sorts of maul in the lake country.

Only the oxen and the logs and the ax and the maul and the growing fence were real by day.

Cried Jack, struggling violently, and raising his hand, "or I'll maul you for life."

The chief was severely mauled, but he was able to get to his feet and walk.

Someone said you had been roughly mauled, and had even lost some teeth.

As you ought to know, Senator, she was pretty badly mauled.

Whistler leaned over the side and, with a maul, tapped the bass on the head.

So, I hope, we may come out of it at last, albeit rather mauled.

I confess I've been mauled some, but I've never been whipped in a man to man fight.

Grooved maul of compact sandstone.

The body of the maul is almost round, though the cut makes it appear flat.

The fact was he began to dig at me and paw me and maul me.

I was well weary by that time of being mauled by women.

Given half a chance, and he'd maul us the worst way.

Then he dived at Reddy and mauled him.

He passed the maul to Bart, and clutched one of the shoes as a club in his right hand.

Sabine wants to follow them, surprise Beatrix, and maul her.

Whoever and whatever she was, she had saved me a mauling.

There was but one way even when it involved the mauling of a man's heart.

"She had no business mauling baby in that fashion."

And if they catch just one of us, why, we can maul them, too.

His words had oaths, his fists were like mauls.

He dragged one great maul of a fist free and drove it at the face beneath him.

The floor of the box seemed beaten with a maul.

And, so saying, I picked up the maul and walked out of the building.

He did not fully recover from his mauling until he went into winter quarters.

If you don't give up I'll maul you, so your own mother won't know you!

We were now getting pretty severely mauled.

They mauled and pounded him until he was sore, for he was the idol of the regiment.

I let them kiss me and maul me from morning till night.

Again Dick received a severe mauling.

This verb comes in for its full share of mauling.

Not after the mauling that young man gave him.

He's let you be mauled up pretty badly.

In the second, do you think he would stand still while you mauled him by yourself?

One stroke of the maul knocked this away.

"He was mauled half to death an hour ago."

The other three were badly mauled, but they recovered.

It would never do to have him thus mauled.

Lad hated to be mauled or talked to by strangers.

I wondered what men were beneath it and what mauling they were receiving.

Maul, excuse me for not stating at once.

"How long are you going to stand for being mauled around like a little yellow dog?"

Had they but known it, he despised them too greatly to think of mauling them.

You cut big logs and split them open with a maul and a wedge.

If you do not soon disappear from here, my friend, you may come in for some mauling.

And Mother Earth, as tired as a child of being mauled, lies sleeping in the sun.

This was the time to maul the wretches.

At every step it was kicked or mauled by the crowd who accompanied it.

And soon they were all breaking branches with stone axes and mauls.

I shall beat him, but the pack will be badly mauled.

Lying on my cushions, mauling my things, running my engine for all I know.

Pryor had jerked, spurred, and mauled, until there was a big space tramped to mortar.

How many times have I told you to quit mauling the prisoners?

His body was being mauled, bruised beneath the thick fabric.

By means of stone mauls the fragments were broken up and removed.

Look at that fellow mauling his horse, Ben.

My muscles were as sore as if I had been the recipient of a thorough mauling.

And Captain Clayton got terribly mauled in the crowd.

Would you come up to my office, Bart, as soon as you've had your mauling?

He would curse all day lung, break his pipe with his teeth and maul his crew.

The whole family commenced to maul him.

If it hadn't been for the captain he would have mauled you for certain.

Maul me, do anything you want to punish me.

During a hunting trip, I saved him from being mauled by a wounded lion.

A tiger sprang out of the jungle and mauled a man who had pressed too close.

Says a bear must have mauled the guy.

Looks like a bear might have mauled him.

The old atmosphere was very much mauled by bats in that game anyway.

"I am not going to be mauled around by a silly girl."

The Indians scarcely ever had such a mauling.

I hate being mauled about by doctors.

They pulled him and hauled him and mauled him and passed him from hand to hand.

The person of all most cruelly mauled was Pen himself.

It would have been quite on the cards for him to have mauled you to-day.

He got away; he's just mauled this man.