How to Use maul in a Sentence

maul

1 of 2 noun
  • The ax and a maul, used for splitting wood, were found in the home.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Police also found a sock that the killer may have used when holding the maul.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2017
  • York then allegedly threw a lighter at the family member and chased both with a maul.
    — Fox News, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Instead, place the log on the ground, 5 inches closer than the length of the maul handle.
    — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Milton worked the ball into the offensive zone pretty steadily and scored on mauls near the goal line.
    — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2019
  • The constant tone of derision in all their conversations would split them apart faster than a maul splits a log.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 27 May 2021
  • Each time a beam was laid down, Ole laid down caulking and then drove in big metal spikes with a maul to hold the timbers together.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Did a Bigfoot maul and kill three men on a cannabis farm in Northern California?
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Years of experience lends one the ability to look at a chunk of wood and figure out where the knots are and where to strike and split with the splitting maul.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Elgin City Councilmember Toby Shaw didn't know a scrum from a maul or a ruck.
    — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 28 Apr. 2017
  • South Africa looked to control proceedings with its big forward pack throughout the match and enjoyed dominance in the scrum and maul.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
  • From a penalty, Argentina kicked to touch, won the lineout and Oviedo burst through the ensuing maul to score the first try.
    — ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • While many college corners lean on lax officiating to grab and maul, Johnson stays disciplined.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Mailata’s highlights, which are really something to see, looked like fifth-grade playground maul ball with all your friends and the one big kid who had been held back twice and was already shaving.
    — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • What possessed him to swing his right elbow flush into the face of Wales flanker Aaron Wainwright at a 49th-minute maul is anyone’s guess.
    — Steve Douglas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
  • This time the ball was adjudged to have been passed forward in the maul -- a controversial decision which left English supporters in the crowd shaking their heads.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Itoje was sin-binned in the 64th for illegally slapping the ball in a maul and 13 men were playing Italy's 15.
    — ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Play only stops if the ball goes out of bounds, there is an infraction or the ball is buried in a ruck or a maul — when the player with the ball is stopped, but not tackled and is joined by at least one player from his own team.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • New Zealand followed up a perfect lineout with a perfect maul, then an inch-perfect cross-field and a perfect ruck to allow Matt Todd to score.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Prop Ellis Genge was sin-binned for collapsing a maul — England's eighth yellow card in the tournament — and France was awarded a penalty try.
    — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Uruguay flanker Santiago Civetta’s yellow card for a professional foul opened the way for a Wales penalty try from a rolling maul, and 21-6.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • More than just the maul, the English had a dominant scrum and lineout, and also used a pinpoint kicking game to break down the Americans and open them up for England’s backs to run through in the second half.
    — Gerald Imray, Houston Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The Caped Crusader's iconic love-hate interest was one of the best villains throughout the series, evidenced by her willingness to get the jungle cat to maul West's character.
    — Aric Jenkins, Time, 10 June 2017
  • Paylor’s injury occurred during a maul, according to the Mercury News, which is when a group of players crunches together to create forward momentum on the player with the ball, while their opponents bind similarly and push back.
    — Marissa Payne, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
  • Down four points with 70 seconds to play, and facing fourth-and-1 on Jacksonville’s 11-yard line, Buffalo called for a Josh Allen quarterback sneak, the claw-and-maul play commonly known as the tush push.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Over the past 40 years, Herrero, the lead author, pioneered the practice of applying biological and forensic insight to investigate why black and brown bears attack, maul and sometimes kill people in North America.
    — Doug O'Harra, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2011
  • Despite losing winger Francesca Granzotto to the sin-bin for a tip tackle, Italy secured victory when the pack walked a maul 15 meters and laid on a try for player-of-the-match flyhalf Veronica Madia with 11 minutes left.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026

maul

2 of 2 verb
  • A bear killed one hiker and badly mauled the other.
  • Both her hands were mauled trying to pry open the shark's jaws.
    — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 14 June 2019
  • He got mauled by Gators in The Swamp.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2025
  • She's been mauled by this animal.
    — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • They were mauled the Vikings run game and didn’t score any points until garbage time.
    — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The people who get mauled are the people who run, and climb trees, and yell at them.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 14 May 2019
  • But, even though bears are nothing new, it's been years since anyone's been mauled.
    — Author: Mitch Borden, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
  • Locklynn had been mauled by one of the family's four dogs.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Even when he was being mauled by MFTs.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • By the time a warden arrived on the scene, the dogs had badly mauled two elk calves.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Each day my own baby fell down the stairs, died in her sleep, choked on a grape, was mauled by a stray dog.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Initially, deputies said the dogs’ owner had been mauled by one or more of his pit bulls.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Not sure ringing bells is going to do much to stop a person from getting mauled.
    — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Other commenters just call for the next bear this guy harasses to maul him.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 22 June 2023
  • Or adhere to your own values, at peril of being mauled?
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But the coyote chased them and caught up with the boy, mauling him and biting him in the back of the head.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 June 2023
  • The child, found mauled in a sugarcane field, died on the way to hospital.
    — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Police suspect the victim, who later died, was mauled by dogs.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2019
  • Myers said Brooks was severely mauled, with wounds to the legs, head, face and neck.
    — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2018
  • Melanie Griffith, mauled near the eye, needed plastic surgery.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Last August, a 57-year-old woman was mauled to death in the city by a loose dog.
    — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Morgan is getting mauled and Rapinoe has vanished from the game on the left.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • Now, instead, the bear goes on a rampage and brutally mauls a bunch of people.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And four years ago, 4-year-old Xavier Strickland was mauled to death by three dogs on the west side.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Now, imagine the same scene if your best friend, you or someone close to you had been mauled by a bear two years earlier.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • But her dream soon turned into a nightmare on May 17th when she was mauled by a bear while working alone.
    — Cydney Henderson, azcentral, 24 May 2018
  • The Portuguese division was at barely half-strength and had been badly mauled.
    — Laurent Rebours, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • The Swiss mauled the Brazilians with 19 fouls, many of which were against Neymar.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 June 2018
  • The changes come after a Delta passenger was mauled by an emotional support dog on a flight last year.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 20 June 2018
  • Suffice it to say, sweet Amy getting mauled to death rattles everyone at the Ridge.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026

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