Example sentences for: rapacious

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

  • Like the Democrats, the Braves are as rapacious as their rivals, but subtler.

  • 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.

  • In Buchanan's neo-1930s protectionism and isolationism, it isn't hard to hear the echoes of the radio priest Father Coughlin, who associated Jewish bankers with rapacious capitalism.

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

  • 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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