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 scathing of fire embrowned its sides, and the uprooted garden marked where the ravager had been.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

Thus was the soldier what he ought to be, the true defender, not the ravager of his country.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

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

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