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
Here, for intrigant and ravager, penitent and saint, failure and world-weary, was sanctuary—respite, if only for an hour, from sin and strife, passion and hate and self.
From The House of Toys by Miller, Henry Russell
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
The scathing of fire embrowned its sides, and the uprooted garden marked where the ravager had been.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
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
