Example sentences for: rapacious

How can you use “rapacious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be interested in buying it and turning it into a West Coast version of the New York Post . A circulation-hungry Willes vs. the rapacious Murdoch: That's just the kind of fight the American newspaper industry needs.

  • appetite, appetites mighty, enormous, gargantuan, endless, limitless, unlimited, unfailing, uncontrollable, lusty, voracious, ravenous, (in) satiable, sharp, ferocious, rapacious, devouring, brutish, wolfish, healthy, hearty, greedy, keen, robust, inordinate, substantial, unbridled, avaricious, poor, grotesque, morbid, morose, raucous, finicky, discriminating,, (im) moderate, shrunk, new-found, catholic, postprandial

  • A reporter chronicles the rapacious and mistaken prosecution of a 7-year-old and an 8-year-old for murder in Chicago.

  • In a brilliant novel published last year, The Puttermesser Papers , her eponymous heroine, Ruth Puttermesser, becomes mayor of New York City and embraces a Whitmanesque vision of urban harmony--Jews and Christians and everyone together--before being undone by a rapacious golem.

  • If such behavior is a legitimate story, why has it taken six years to find out that Clinton's rapacious sexual appetite has apparently never been slaked but simply changed venue?


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