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Example sentences for "depredating"

Lexicographically close words:
depreciated; depreciates; depreciating; depreciation; depreciatory; depredation; depredations; depredator; depredators; deprehended
  1. Was our depredating raid to go unrewarded?

  2. We had been over an hour at our depredating labours, and I was beginning to wish I had never sanctioned the expedition; then the indefatigable Stewart made a discovery.

  3. French colonies that if they will rebel against their Government, and restrain from depredating upon us, we will treat with them, is to invite them to do it.

  4. He should be satisfied if the islands refrained from depredating upon our trade, without making any disavowal.

  5. On the march from Booneville to Springfield strict orders were given that there should be no depredating on private property, the rights of every citizen being fully respected.

  6. He again described the missing horses, and asked if the depredating Home Guards had been seen by the captain or his men.

  7. The remainder of the tribe, instigated by the former chief, Osceola, repudiated the treaties, refused to remove, and soon after commenced depredating upon the whites.

  8. They number, as nearly as can be estimated, 5200; do not cultivate the soil, but subsist by hunting and fishing, and at times by depredating in a small way upon the white settlers.

  9. He took an early and active part in repelling the depredating and murderous incursions of the Cherokee Indians upon the frontier settlements.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depredating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.