depredator
Example Sentences
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Monstri was not the only depredator who found the Gironde a fitting theatre for his piracy.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello
Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator; and shouting 'Stop thief!' with all his might, made off after him, book in hand.
From Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator, and, shouting "Stop thief!" with all his might, made off after him, book in hand.
From Ten Boys from Dickens by George Alfred Williams
But when Will declared their intention of watching that night for the depredator, her anger vanished in fear.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
