Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.
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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 Fishing and swimming were their chief pastimes, with general marauding for adventure.
2 Another account tells of marauding bands of Shechemites which disturbed the district.
3 War broke out suddenly, and the country was overrun by marauding bands.
4 He went marauding elsewhere, and she divorced him by act of parliament.
5 Not since duffers and land-lubbers have been marauding over Penbeacon-aye ,andelsewhere.
1 The Great Wall of China was unable to repel the raiding hordes.
2 Police fired to stop the protesters from raiding the compounds, they said.
3 He usually fought from the water, raiding and leaving with deadly swiftness.
4 I surprise a family of raccoons raiding the Dumpster, but no Sally.
5 Meanwhile, the cavalry of Guthrum were raiding the country far and wide.
6 Which means zeroing in on a technically advanced civilization and raiding them.
7 The Thaumaturg had always been very effective in intercepting their raiding parties.
8 Them onery Mexican Indians have broke loose and are raiding the country.
9 Pre-emptively raiding your neighbours lest they raid you is routine human behaviour.
10 The murderer-the grey-armored leader of the raiding party-stepped up to join them.
11 And they did this while plundering and raiding this continent's aboriginal population.
12 Jones informed me that certain powerful banking interests were raiding the stock.
13 On that he disclosed his whole daring scheme for raiding the Pacific.
14 We will take Larsa, and punish its leaders for raiding our lands.
15 The Messenger was dispatching a raiding party to the outskirts of Medina.
16 But the raiding was no worse than anywhere else along the Border.
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