depredator
Example Sentences
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
Great was the wonder which now rose as to who the depredator could be, and what motive he could possibly have had for acting so strange a part.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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 Harriet Martineau
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 Eugene Field
