depredator
Example Sentences
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
The depredator was still brandishing the miserable instrument, which he had borrowed for the occasion of the fellow who cut the company's hair in the "Owl House."
From The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
By themselves both Hakim Khan and the Kirghiz depredator were beneath contempt; but with an enemy established on the soil of the country, they assumed a too clear and mischievous importance.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
The robbers have recourse to stratagem, for the purpose of discovering the depredator, but without success.
From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
But when Will declared their intention of watching that night for the depredator, her anger vanished in fear.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
