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Meanings of raptorial in английском

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.

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                Examples for "predatory"
                Examples for "predatory"
                1
                Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
                Boston noir
                2
                Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
                BBC
                3
                An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
                Grand junction
                4
                Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
                Reuters
                5
                These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
                The Guardian
                1
                He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
                Chaosbound
                2
                What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
                The Guardian
                3
                The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
                Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
                4
                He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
                Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
                5
                His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
                Bundori
                1
                She couldn't protect herself against our ravening dad with a mere cut-eye!
                Sister Mine
                2
                Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?
                Dexter by Design
                3
                At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.
                Mary Gray
                4
                The deep voice of the wind is that of a ravening beast.
                Reach for Infinity
                5
                And yet, why throw a rag like this to us ravening wolves?
                In Defence of Harriet Shelley
                1
                Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
                The Prince and Betty
                2
                Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever.
                The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
                3
                The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
                Two Years Ago, Volume I
                4
                It was like the vulturine face of Castor, but... No, it could not be Castor.
                Dayworld
                5
                The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance.
                The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories
                1
                Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning.
                Catch-22
                2
                Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else.
                The Boy Hunters
                3
                Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European nineteenth-century men.
                In Darkest England, and the Way Out
                4
                This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike.
                Catch-22
                5
                I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion.
                A Man and a Woman
                Usage of raptorial in английском
                1
                They even have raptorial claws for the purpose.
                BBC
                2
                The tallest of the Praying-Mantis creatures waved a raptorial leg at Iris, its mandible clicking commands.
                Future Lovecraft
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                It had been posed as if in mid-strike, its raptorial arms outflung to shadow the paper landscape below.
                Empire in black and gold
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                As if playing along, the mantis did a sudden little dance, flexing her raptorial legs while that bright watchful face did everything but wink.
                Engineering Infinity
                Raptorial through the time