despoiler

Example Sentences

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Alas, it was taken down from its plinth on Sunday after its latest run-in with sectarian despoilers.

From The Guardian • Jan. 8, 2020

We’ve always been not only universal despoilers but brilliant adapters; climate change is just the same old story writ larger.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

Big-game hunting is no longer fashionable, of course, but it's worth remembering that hunters tended to see themselves not as despoilers of the natural environment of Africa but as experts in it.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2014

It depicts North Americans as voracious despoilers who can’t bear to stop shopping.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2012

They are in pursuit of the despoilers; a chase commenced as soon as they could collect sufficient force to give it a chance of success.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne