maul
noun
a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
had mauled
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past perfectof maul.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“The Red Pony”: This was great until I realized the pony was red because a werewolf had mauled it.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
Jayson Werth had mauled Lannan when they played for their former teams, going 8 for 24 with four homers against him.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2013
For the first time, the military forces of Britain and Argentina had mauled each other on the high seas in the bizarre battle for possession of the remote, inhospitable Falkland Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Kennedy had riddled him through and through in the 1960 Democratic primaries, and Lyndon Johnson had mauled him for four years as Vice President.
From Time Magazine Archive
He met a policeman and said more'n a hundred men had tried to murder him, and they had mauled him and stolen his yellow handkerchief.
From The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
