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.
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
We watched for several following nights, but if Master Bruin had been the depredator, he was too wary to repeat his visits.
From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.
It was against the grain to condemn her as all bad, a depredator, a woman with perverted moral sense who broke the law and did evil things.
From The Passenger from Calais by Griffiths, Arthur
