Usage examples (15)

• Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit.
• The one solitary advantage of these corporations is that they gather the depredatory birds together, and lead them to prey upon themselves instead of wandering abroad...
• Upon his juncture with his tribe the effects of Dugingi's education soon displayed themselves; and having been caught and convicted of theft, and after a series of successful...
• On many of his depredatory expeditions he had not hesitated to use the knife and the mutton-bone.