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
What a fury of destruction once the ravager is installed in the vegetable treasure-house!
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
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 Charles Knight
The scathing of fire embrowned its sides, and the uprooted garden marked where the ravager had been.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
Congestion of the lungs vies with sleeping sickness as the ravager of Middle Africa, and especially certain parts of the Congo.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
