(v.) A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Di Matteo has made bold selections before, not least when he asked Ramires to play on the left of midfield against Barcelona in an attempt to nullify the threat posed by the marauding Daniel Alves down the flank.
(2) Despite the marauding excellence of the captain, Philip Lahm, and the reflexes and calmed poise of the goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Germany's weakness is defence.
(3) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(4) Only seconds before, he had bailed out the left-back José Holebas after another marauding Antonio run.
(5) As the distinguished Guardian editor CP Scott said: “Comment is free but facts are sacred.” Hammond actually used the word “marauding” when commenting about those “desperate” migrants whom we have seen on television threatening safety and security near the Channel Tunnel.
(6) These are the people some of our political leaders have in mind when they talk of swarms , plagues and marauders.
(7) His parents were immigrants from Europe - his Jewish father escaped the Nazis, his Polish mother escaped the marauding Russians after they pushed back from Germany.
(8) 1.35pm GMT 4 mins: This has been a pretty passive start by Newcastle and Jack Wilshere has already had two opportunities to maraud forward and he nearly wins a corner on the second occasion.
(9) There was a note of desperation from the Indonesian foreign affairs minister, Retno Maraud , when she was interviewed just before last month’s Bali round of regional ministers on how to manage the movement of the human tide.
(10) Soldiers went on looting sprees, and 1 victim of their marauding became a 12-year old boy who got shot for refusing to part with his bike.
(11) Its exhibition on the marauding Scandinavians will showcase the new gallery in the most spectacular way – with a real longship.
(12) On the other is Isis, a marauding force of global jihadists, who have claimed a homeland from the ruins of the once feared police states of Iraq and Syria.
(13) Luke Harding was the Guardian's correspondent in India at the time: at one village, he reported that policemen actively co-ordinated the attacks, accompanying marauders as they torched fields and shooting at the Muslim farmers who tried to stop them.
(14) Mark Noble had darted through the centre and his pass ricocheted off Chester and Tom Huddlestone before the ball reached the marauding Mohamed Diamé in front of goal, the Senegalese controlling it with his arm as he careered forward and poked his shot over the advancing goalkeeper.
(15) Ariel was barely a year old when Bedouin marauders threatened their home.
(16) Aran Khanna’s app – called Marauder’s Map in tribute to the Harry Potter books – showed that users of Facebook Messenger could pinpoint the exact locations of people they were talking to.
(17) It was the first of two such marauding first-half runs from the industrious midfielder and 10 minutes later he did much the same again.
(18) The Ivorian had a couple of marauding forward runs but defensively he looked like he was treading water and his substitution said it all.
(19) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
(20) The statement said there was no evidence that the police had caused Ian's sudden and untimely death and that he had been caught in a crowd of marauding protesters.
Vulture
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exact number of lawsuits involving vulture funds operating in offshore tax havens is unclear, as many of these funds are highly secretive of their holdings.
(2) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(3) Margaret Lyons of the Vulture blog summed up the US response to MacFarlane's turn when she wrote: It's frustrating enough to know that 77% of Academy voters are male.
(4) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
(5) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(6) We saw no one apart from some old men in a hut who offered us water, unless vultures, choughs and the odd goat count.
(7) People are rare here, outnumbered by the eagles, vultures and cabra (goats).
(8) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(9) The vultures, led by a US billionaire, are mainly hedge fund investors who snapped up Argentinian bonds at rock-bottom prices following the country's $95bn default on its foreign debt in 2001.
(10) The debate was interrupted after 20 minutes when about 30 student demonstrators walked into the hall and began to barrack Hunt, chanting "Minister of culture, Tory vulture" and "Tory scum".
(11) The World Bank estimates that more than one-third of the countries which have qualified for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief have been targeted by vulture funds.
(12) UK legislation on vulture funds has already had an impact, when Liberia last year reached agreement to repay just over 3% of the face value of a $43m debt.
(13) The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said many countries had been pursued by vulture funds, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, and the DRC.
(14) The sequences are compared with those of the Golden Eagle, and with those of the Andean Condor, a New World vulture.
(15) "To those who say we should negotiate with the vultures, I say the vultures are vultures because they don't negotiate," economy minister Axel Kicillof said defiantly.
(16) When it comes to greenlighting a film, the ‘comp’ is king – that is, the comparison to other, similar films, which studios use for box office projections and determining a budget,” says Kyle Buchanan, senior editor at Vulture.
(17) They buy up the debts of countries in chaos and war, speculating on the fact that when investors finally come back into the country – often encouraged by generous debt writedown schemes and International Monetary Fund programmes – the vultures will get their money back with huge interest on top, benefiting from the fledgling trade and new liquidity.
(18) Last year, the boutique Los Angeles fashion label Wildfox dedicated its entire Spring collection to a recreation of Cher, Dionne and Tai’s unmistakable wardrobes, while Vulture tracked down the bulk of the film’s cast (plus Rollin’ With My Homies hitmaker Coolio) for an oral history of the iconic ‘party in the Valley’ scene .
(19) Instead of a temporal fovea as in eagles and hawks, an afoveate temporal area is present in chimango, condor, and vulture.
(20) Cho revealed, in an interview with the website Vulture , that a kiss was originally part of the scene, but was ultimately removed.