How to Use rapacity in a Sentence

rapacity

noun

• This variation of socialism aimed to blunt the rapacity of capitalism rather than sharpen its contradictions and hasten the coming revolution.
  — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
• Trump’s entire doctrine is naked rapacity, from Venezuela to hijacking the Kennedy Center to hideously remaking the White House in his own gaudy image.
  — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
• Sudan’s civil war, a conflict credibly described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, has seen violence matched only by the belligerents’ rapacity in pillaging the country’s riches.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
• Unlike the specialized literary magazine and its informal cousin, the literary blog, the general-interest newspaper has a kind of noble rapacity, an encyclopedic ambition to wrap its arms around the whole of the world.
  — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
• The French—and, later, Anglo (Wilde, Beardsley, Rossetti)—attitude, mannered and morbid, was perhaps too Old World, at odds with our cheerful, Protestant rapacity.
  — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026