Example sentences for: rapacious

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • These rapacious European phone monopolies have given birth to independent call-back services.


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