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Example sentences for "mauling"

Lexicographically close words:
maugre; maugree; mauka; maul; mauled; mauls; maun; maund; maunded; maundered
  1. Our troops had just come in from a long fatiguing march, when they had the audacity to attack our camp, but got such a mauling from our mud-crushers and Artillery that they soon bolted.

  2. The mauling that our Heavy Cavalry gave the enemy they will not forget for a day or two.

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

  4. He pictured those brutal soldiers mauling the warm bodies, thrusting them through an open window and proclaiming their loyalty--to him!

  5. There had been only one exception to Wolf's hatred for mauling at strangers' hands.

  6. Sadly she missed the petting and the mauling of the children.

  7. For Margaret was rising in the world, and could have no encumbrances; and Miss Mauling disappeared in South Harvey and that New Year's Eve marked the sad anniversary of the break in her relations with Mrs. Fenn.

  8. Mr. Calvin's practice doubled and trebled and Miss Mauling lost small caste with the nobility and gentry.

  9. Then after the business with Joseph Calvin was concluded, the young Judge in his private office with his hands under his coattails preened before Miss Mauling and talked from a shameless soul of his greed for power!

  10. As John Kollander thundered back some irrelevant comment on the moment's politics, Van Dorn led Brotherton to the further end of the counter and lowering his voice said: "You know that Mauling girl at the Palace cigar counter?

  11. For Miss Mauling was peevish and far from happy.

  12. As he was writing the words "At Home" on the slate on the door, he could hear Miss Mauling at the telephone.

  13. It was only after they had thus practised their seductions in vain on the dead man that the widow gave way to her frantic outburst of sorrow by mauling herself with a sort of saw.

  14. We're in enough trouble without you mauling one of Vidac's pet boys.

  15. Like three happy puppies the cadets swarmed over their skipper, pounding him on the back, grabbing his hands, and mauling him until he had to cry out for peace.

  16. She has had a dreadful mauling by the world; but her brain is sound.

  17. Pa tried to quiet the crowd and silence the hyenas by taking an iron bar and mauling them, but the hyenas just backed up against the rear of the cage and howled and sneezed at pa, and dared him to come on.

  18. Mikurti kug sumbag sa kawatan nga hidakpan, I joined in mauling the thief they caught.

  19. You couldn't imagine two chaps like us mauling each other like a pair of bruisers in Mrs. Grundy's drawing-room, could you?

  20. It seemed to him he was getting an entirely disproportionate reward for mauling an insolent chauffeur.

  21. Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him in Irish and the old towser growling, letting on to answer, like a duet in the opera.

  22. When he heard that the enraged owner of the honey was mauling his lost coat, he was so alarmed that he took to his bed and died.

  23. Morty flung himself bodily upon Lad; hauling and mauling the stately collie this way and that.

  24. He would even permit them to paw him or haul him about, if they were of the obnoxious, dog-mauling breed.

  25. Anything short of the iron man Tex had become would have been dead before this or have been finished by the mauling he now got from Hopalong.

  26. But I'll lick the whole bunch of you if you don't quite mauling me.

  27. His comrades gathered around him, pawing and mauling him exultantly.

  28. Bobby's comrades rushed upon him, mauling and pounding him; the shouting crowd swooped out from the stand and surrounded him.

  29. I then looked round to see if Roshan Khan was all right, as I was not sure whether the lion had succeeded in mauling him or not.

  30. The lion, however, was so busily engaged mauling Bhoota's arm that he paid not the slightest attention to Spooner's efforts.

  31. Shady harked back to the ways of her domestic ancestors, to the custom of dashing into a neighborhood dog fight and mauling the one strange dog in the lot, regardless of sex,--and Breed had been her friend long before he had become her mate.

  32. He knew the game was up but he went down fighting,--fighting against odds without a whine; and Breed watched five savage dogs mauling a limp dead thing that ten seconds past had been his valued friend.

  33. The House of Commons goes on in mauling the late Ministry and their proceedings.

  34. They are always mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me.

  35. The severe mauling which the German armies were receiving--we knew nothing about it at the time--undoubtedly was partly responsible for the harsh treatment extended to us.

  36. The professor, if he laid there and heard it, would feel like getting out of the grave, and taking a crutch and mauling the liver out of the bigoted rebel.

  37. The panther then left mauling me to attack the dog.

  38. Little Tim, in the grasp of John Hart, was receiving the soundest cuffing and mauling that had ever fallen to his lot in a somewhat varied experience with the world.

  39. Behind him he saw a lifeless lion lying torn and bleeding upon the sand, and before him Numa of the pit was savagely mauling the second lion.

  40. Only Otobu remained to face the enemy, for the Englishman, already weak from his wounds and from the latest mauling he had received at the claws of the lion, had lost consciousness as he sank to the ground with this new hurt.

  41. Feverish with desire, with aching back and stiffening muscles, with pick and shovel gouging and mauling the soft brown earth, the man toiled up the hill.

  42. Wholly uninhabited, entirely free from traces of the mauling paws of humanity, lovely in its mantle of varied foliage, what better sphere for the exercise of benign autocracy could be desired?

  43. The fish took the boy's head into its capacious mouth, mauling him severely about the head and shoulders, and but for his valiant and determined struggles would doubtless have succeeded in killing him.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mauling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    brunt; bump; cannon; carom; clash; collision; concussion; crash; crunch; encounter; impact; meeting; onslaught; percussion; punishment; shock; smash; smashing; thrashing