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
An exultant shout bubbles up in the water, and then the heroic defender of crabbed maidenhood leads his beloved to view the remains of this ravager of hard-shell rights.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various
The chemist steps in; and the ravager is destroyed or rendered less noxious.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles
What a fury of destruction once the ravager is installed in the vegetable treasure-house!
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
But this unaccountable gray ravager 108 was bigger than any two such wolves, fiercer and more dauntless than any ten.
From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
