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
They said that it was useless trying to plant anything hereabout; the Sauba ant devoured the young coffee trees, and everyone who attempted to contend against this universal ravager was sure to be defeated.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
The ravager is at the gate, and there is none on earth to help us!
From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving
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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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 Charles Knight
