RAPACIOUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for RAPACIOUS, such as:
1. The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle.
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Meanings and Examples of RAPACIOUS
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rapacious
a. excessively greedy; predatory; taking by force; plundering
Classic Sentence:
1 But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
2 It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.
Example Sentence:
1 The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle.