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
Thus was the soldier what he ought to be, the true defender, not the ravager of his country.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas
This puny grub, which will spin itself an infinitesimal cocoon of white silk under the piece attacked and will later become an insignificant moth, is the primordial ravager.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
There was no highwayman, no menacing apparition of any sort, but the fear of some ghostly ravager had been real enough.
From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman
But that cruel ravager of ecclesiastical property, Bishop Cathedral.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
