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Example sentences for "depredator"

Lexicographically close words:
depreciation; depreciatory; depredating; depredation; depredations; depredators; deprehended; depress; depressant; depressants
  1. Hodgson says this animal is common all over Thibet, and is a terrible depredator among the flocks, or, as Kinloch writes: "apparently preferring the slaughter of tame animals to the harder task of circumventing wild ones.

  2. A dash and a grab might secure to the depredator possession of wealth; and while such temptations are held out, the surprise is, not that so many street robberies are, but that a great many more are not committed.

  3. I told you, Sir Felix, that the depredator would be thrown in your way: my prediction is realized; he has been accidentally encountered by your servant, and is now in safe custody.

  4. The modern burglar could have taught the old depredator little that he did not know.

  5. Schemes are larger, the plunder is greater, the depredator travels over wider areas.

  6. He had gone latterly into partnership with the notorious George Williams, commonly called "English George," a well-known depredator and bank thief.

  7. Either they must prove Mackoull's guilt or lose their action--an action brought, it must be remembered, by a public depredator against a respectable banking company for daring to retain a part of the property of which he had robbed them.

  8. Great was the wonder which now rose as to who the depredator could be, and what motive he could possibly have had for acting so strange a part.

  9. A city depredator seldom if ever confines his operations to letters passing over a particular route.

  10. But the most cunning depredator would never think of destroying a thing so insignificant as a string.

  11. As "it is the last straw which breaks the camel's back," so it is often the stealing of the last letter which aids in bringing to light the depredator of former ones.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depredator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bummer; marauder; plunderer; raider; ravager; ravisher; wrecker