How to Use rapacious in a Sentence

rapacious

adjective
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  • Look, China is rapacious all around the world, not just to us.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2018
  • The curse was it brought in all these rapacious settlers.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
  • His capture of the rapacious wolf fulfills the hero role.
    — Sharma Howard, courant.com, 25 July 2017
  • Turns out the only thing more rapacious on earth than a lionfish is you and me.
    — Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
  • What if the first cities were, above all, vast technologies of exploitation by a small and rapacious elite?
    — Jedediah Purdy, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The world’s poor are now subject to the worst of climate change, brought about by rapacious development and consumerism by the rich.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Feeding this rapacious appetite is profitable but hard: most of the ore closest to the Earth’s surface is tapped, and rich stores are scarce.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Any token purchase was in some sense speculative, but in the utopian rather than the rapacious sense of the word.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • The tech industry is rapacious in its need for skilled workers.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • There have been scant few weeks where the rapacious ride-hailing company hasn't been in the weekly news cycle.
    — Sebastian Anthony, Ars Technica, 21 June 2017
  • Indigenous people are never seen in this hour, but they are talked about in terms that slur them as rapacious beasts.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In the Tatmadaw’s telling, a rapacious West could conquer Myanmar at any moment.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Big business and Big Pharma are rapacious villains that crush the common man.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 5 July 2019
  • Amazon can be a rapacious monopoly and also the most reliable way to get light bulbs in a time of crisis.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Of all the rapacious schemes employed by Maduro and his cronies, the most heinous was the one run for the benefit of Maduro himself: profiting from the starvation of his own people.
    — Marshall Billingslea, National Review, 9 May 2021
  • Twas not my charming personality, the twinkle in my eye, nor my rapacious wit — the blue hair strikes again.
    — Sable Yong, Allure, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The eponymous maw of the largemouth bass — and the fish’s ability to suck prey into that gaping gullet in a rapacious strike — are part of the lore and legend of the bass to the many anglers who pursue it.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • The old tale of mammals eking out a living under the talons of rapacious dinosaurs until the asteroid struck doesn’t hold up.
    — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
  • After the price of wool cratered at the end of the 19th century, the Highlands’ economy shifted to deer stalking, and red deer, equally rapacious, took over from sheep.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Now, these waters face a much larger, more rapacious hunter: China.
    — Claire Fu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • These abusers are like the Old Testament god Molech, lying in wait with a rapacious hunger for the sacrifice of both children’s innocence and their trust in God.
    — Susan Codone, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Now three children have 30 days to solve the puzzle before a rapacious property...
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 19 May 2017
  • Or to save Russia from some future existential threat from the rapacious West?
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The rapacious pace of westward movement brought with it a force that downed forests, despoiled rivers, stripped vegetation, and killed animals, a force that is still very much with us.
    — David Gessner, Outside Online, 6 Aug. 2020
  • To critics, this is evidence of a rapacious industry coercing the poor to auction bits of themselves to make ends meet.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • But few think those goals can be reached without curbing rapacious cattle ranching.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • That expense is borne by the media mogul Barry Diller, a fact that has discombobulated those who think of rich and rapacious as synonyms.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 June 2021
  • Then there's Max Wolfe (Thomas Doherty), a rapacious thrill-seeker who wants to do everything with/to everyone.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 July 2021
  • Bezos’s move also suggests that the window to tame this rapacious monster may be rapidly closing.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
  • The study contains eight scenarios to block the rapacious Asian carp species that threaten the lakes' ecology and multibillion dollar fishery.
    — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021

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