ravager

Example Sentences

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Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves?the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Congestion of the lungs vies with sleeping sickness as the ravager of Middle Africa, and especially certain parts of the Congo.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

Once when an attempt was made to take some books from the grave of Ezekiel, the ravager suddenly became sick and blind.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Radin, Paul

To his fame, it would have erected no auxiliary monument to have invaded, like the ravager of Egypt, an innocent though barbarous nation, to inscribe his name on the pillar of Pompey.

From Washington's Birthday by Schauffler, Robert Haven

The good fortune that secured me the ravaged pupa taught me nothing concerning the tactics of the ravager.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander