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
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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
But this unaccountable gray ravager 108 was bigger than any two such wolves, fiercer and more dauntless than any ten.
From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Aunt Mary, if she had been pretty in infancy, had been spoiled by that dreadful ravager, the small-pox, which she had caught, through the carelessness of a nurse, when she was five years old.
From Aunt Mary by Mrs. Perring
The ravager is at the gate, and there is none on earth to help us!
From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving