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

The ravager is at the gate, and there is none on earth to help us!

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Irving, Washington

A grey bear visited the folds at Hleithargarth; many such a ravager was there far and wide throughout the country.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

To his fame, it would have erected no auxiliary monument to have invaded, like the ravager of Egypt, an innocent though barbarous nation, to inscribe his name on the pillar of Pompey.

From Washington's Birthday by Schauffler, Robert Haven

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