How to Use marauder in a Sentence

marauder

noun

• Two Black teenagers wearing zoot suits had to seek refuge at the Pasadena police station from marauders.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• This attack may have been more than an incursion by marauders looking for food or goods.
  — Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
• Advertisement The bear was deterred only when another bakery worker got in her car and drove around back to scare the marauder away.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• In Schutz’s painting, the temporary fence between us, the viewers, and the painting’s middle-aged marauders and nut jobs — one of whom has a belt of explosives strapped to his body and another of whom kneels to pray — is broken.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• There were warring factions and marauders and abandonments and murders.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• But 20 seconds of awkwardness soon was replaced by having my own row on the boat, and the opportunity to simply get lost in my thoughts amid the life-size dioramas of drunken marauders.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Jedi trapped behind enemy lines, including Avar Kriss, must fight to help the worlds being pillaged by the Nihil while staying one step ahead of the marauders and their Nameless terrors.
  — EW.com, 2 Nov. 2023
• After the dissolution of monasteries in 1537, pirates and marauders took over the island.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• If zoomers are delicate snowflakes, alphas are the opposite — a horde of marauders chasing Drunk Elephant beauty products.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Inspired by both role playing games and tabletop pets, the family-skewing project follows a herd of meowing marauders, banished from their cat kingdom and searching for the treasure that will grant them safe passage back.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• Traveling by foot bearing just a revolver with two rounds for protection, the stoic pair endure the ravages of nature while fending off marauders and cannibals in their desperate bid to stay alive.
  — Lucas Wittmann, Time, 13 June 2023
• Nicky Katt plays Spike, a deathbike marauder wearing flagrant lipstick beneath red-black eyeshadow.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
• But beneath its pretty exterior, the hyacinth hid its true nature as a malevolent marauder.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• But the village was unremarkable, with nothing worth stealing, and attracted attention from neither thief nor marauder.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• In other words, margins narrowed more because of faulty buying decisions made internally than from thefts committed by workers or marauders.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• This, too, is an unintentionally comic scenario: the Viking not as a ruthless marauder but as a hapless, unwis character wandering a foreign landscape, realizing with dawning dismay that his fortune has slipped through his hands.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• De La Soul’s experimental hip-hop, now available again, sounded equally liberating, a reminder of the ingenuity that political marauders try to expropriate from black culture.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024