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

The chemist steps in; and the ravager is destroyed or rendered less noxious.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles

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

The scathing of fire embrowned its sides, and the uprooted garden marked where the ravager had been.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

It is an ascending shaft, tempting to an enemy; and some underground ravager might come this way and destroy the nest by attacking the row of cells at the back.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander