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

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

It is an ascending shaft, tempting to an enemy; and some underground ravager might come this way and destroy the nest by attacking the row of cells at the back.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

An exultant shout bubbles up in the water, and then the heroic defender of crabbed maidenhood leads his beloved to view the remains of this ravager of hard-shell rights.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various

The ravager is at the gate, and there is none on earth to help us!

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Irving, Washington