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 Squire was the only man, at first, who durst bid defiance to the general ravager.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

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

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

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

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 Dawson, John William