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 scathing of fire embrowned its sides, and the uprooted garden marked where the ravager had been.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
A grey bear visited the folds at Hleithargarth; many such a ravager was there far and wide throughout the country.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers
The first of these animals is believed to have been a burrowing creature, perhaps a mole; the second, from the meaning of its name, "ravager of fields," is thought to have been a mouse.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
