How to Use rapacious in a Sentence

rapacious

adjective

• Is no one else bothered by the rapacious greed?
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026
• Look, China is rapacious all around the world, not just to us.
  — Fox News, 6 July 2018
• The rapacious killers can wipe out an entire bee colony within hours.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
• Turns out the only thing more rapacious on earth than a lionfish is you and me.
  — Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
• The man is rapacious — a hungry ghost with a big mouth and an empty stomach.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
• The tech industry is rapacious in its need for skilled workers.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• By contrast, his second term looks rapacious.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• But few think those goals can be reached without curbing rapacious cattle ranching.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• 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
• If anything, his regime grew more predatory, more rapacious, more violent in the past few years.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Our hunger, since the Second World War, has become rapacious.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Katie Porter has fought to defend the well-being of the little guy against rapacious banks and drug companies.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
• But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect?
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
• 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
• Passing moments of vocal rawness didn’t feel out of place for this rapacious character.
  — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
• Big business and Big Pharma are rapacious villains that crush the common man.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 5 July 2019
• In this rapacious subculture, mobsters went into subdivisions and snapped up a half dozen homes at a time.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
• Or is a warming planet and decades of rapacious human industry to blame for everything?
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• 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 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
• Or to save Russia from some future existential threat from the rapacious West?
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
• 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
• In the Tatmadaw’s telling, a rapacious West could conquer Myanmar at any moment.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
• Remmick is a monster, but his homeland was colonized by some of the same rapacious forces that brought the twins’ ancestors to America.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
• Money talked in all these races, and maybe people in Fort Lauderdale are resigned to the rapacious level of development around them.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024