depredator
Example Sentences
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
We watched for several following nights, but if Master Bruin had been the depredator, he was too wary to repeat his visits.
From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.
But Monstri was not the only depredator who found the Gironde a fitting theatre for his piracy.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart
“Your Majesty may be the depredator to a much more serious extent, if you will condescend but to take the Countess’s heart along with you,” said the Colonel, with a grave smile.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
