Example Sentences

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What better way to demonstrate the logical endpoint of mankind’s rapaciousness than to cast out little reminders of Ahab’s crew spearing and stripping scores of whales for profit and pleasure?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2020

Fritsch weathered the art world’s rapaciousness in the 1980s, refusing to churn out work too fast or under pressure: As such, she never turned cynical.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2020

Her essays reveal an astute and acerbic commentator on our world, whether writing about adopting a cat or the rapaciousness of capitalism.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2018

In the highlands, Holger Vera, the farmer, stands amid a grove of orange trees, pineapple plants and other crops, lamenting the rapaciousness of the local rodents.

From Scientific American • Nov. 1, 2017

Malta is one of the remarkable instances in which we may trace a kind of penalty on the rapaciousness of the Republic.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various