depredator
Example Sentences
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when Will declared their intention of watching that night for the depredator, her anger vanished in fear.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
He glowered down the trail and shook his clenched fist vengefully at the imaginary depredator, saying in hissing voice, “Him one bad darn beas’!”
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
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
"By the by, Miss Buff, have you discovered yet the depredator of your poultry-yard?"
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
