marauder

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, the Big 12 was a year removed from its gutting and eager to play the role of marauder.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2022

Their center, Jonquel Jones, is an imposing, electric presence, and a marauder on the boards.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2019

It is not long before he encounters Adrian Toomes, a villainous arms dealer who has his own alter-ego in the form of wing-sporting marauder Vulture.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2017

The problem facing the adapters was the challenge of evoking the famous marauder of legend: that headless Hessian on horseback terrorizing the good people of Sleepy Hollow in rural New York.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2011

He slipped away through fields and forests, his precious old instrument under his arm, to seek out refuge in the hall of some lesser marauder.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner