ravager

Example Sentences

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Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves?the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus.

From Time Magazine Archive

This puny grub, which will spin itself an infinitesimal cocoon of white silk under the piece attacked and will later become an insignificant moth, is the primordial ravager.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

There was no highwayman, no menacing apparition of any sort, but the fear of some ghostly ravager had been real enough.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman

The good fortune that secured me the ravaged pupa taught me nothing concerning the tactics of the ravager.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

They said that it was useless trying to plant anything hereabout; the Sauba ant devoured the young coffee trees, and everyone who attempted to contend against this universal ravager was sure to be defeated.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter