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

By the cluster lights he could see how fearfully it had mauled her, how cruelly its irony had kissed hollows in her young cheeks.

From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod