depredator

Example Sentences

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Uncle Denis had been busily employed in forming a trap in which he hoped to catch the depredator.

From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.

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 Boulger, Demetrius Charles

The depredator has intercepted the rewards of toil, and marred the image of justice, and dimmed the lustre of faith in men’s minds.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet

When I discovered one morning that my young sunflowers and my tomato vines had been cut down during the night by some lawless depredator I was mightily incensed.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene