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Meanings of vulturine in English
Synonyms
Examples for "predatory"
Examples for "predatory"
1
Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
2
Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
3
An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
4
Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
5
These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
1
He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
2
What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
3
The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
4
He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
5
His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
1
She couldn't protect herself against our ravening dad with a mere cut-eye!
2
Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?
3
At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.
4
The deep voice of the wind is that of a ravening beast.
5
And yet, why throw a rag like this to us ravening wolves?
1
Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning.
2
Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else.
3
Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European nineteenth-century men.
4
This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike.
5
I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion.
1
They even have raptorial claws for the purpose.
2
The tallest of the Praying-Mantis creatures waved a raptorial leg at Iris, its mandible clicking commands.
3
It had been posed as if in mid-strike, its raptorial arms outflung to shadow the paper landscape below.
4
As if playing along, the mantis did a sudden little dance, flexing her raptorial legs while that bright watchful face did everything but wink.
Usage of vulturine in English
1
Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
2
Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever.
3
The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
4
It was like the vulturine face of Castor, but... No, it could not be Castor.
5
The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance.
6
His dark face had a peculiarly vulturine look.
7
Usually it keeps to rocky hills and mountains, over which it beats with a steady, sailing, vulturine flight.
8
At this, thy son Srutarvan, excited with rage, pierced Bhima with a hundred straight arrows winged with vulturine feathers.
9
And what of another, hitherto unnoticed, whose nose is of the hooked vulturine, whose name transpires as Pisistratus Mytharete?
10
There is no more to be discovered in the matter, save by the vulturine nose which smells carrion in every rose-bed.
11
Ruthven stood forward from the group, his reeking poniard clutched in his right hand, a grin distorting his ghastly, vulturine face.
12
But he was more interested in her husband, a dark dry man, with big eyes, sallow complexion, prominent chin, and vulturine nose.
13
Then Yudhishthira also, filled with wrath, and the two sons of Madri, began to slay those elephant-warriors with arrows equipped with vulturine wings.
14
"Blaspheme not," he croaked, and his tall form quivered with rage, his sallow old face grew vulturine.
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Vulturine through the time