How to Use marauder in a Sentence

marauder

noun
  • This attack may have been more than an incursion by marauders looking for food or goods.
    — Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
  • Food was short, and if the marauders weren’t stopped, the entire population would starve.
    — EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • And aren’t these very convincing names for marauder warriors raiding and ravaging at the end of the world?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2024
  • This Robin is a grizzled marauder who can’t even remember how many people he’s killed.
    — ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • The Ohio White Caps were described as bands of marauders and outlaws.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
  • While that occasion caused much mirth, neighbors in Washington were not pleased with the mass of masked marauders.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The movies, by contrast, were still being made in Hollywood by marauders and lunatics.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • There were warring factions and marauders and abandonments and murders.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There’s no evidence the great marauder himself descends from the Xiongnu elite, though, Brosseder says.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 24 Feb. 2025
  • There are seven factions to choose from including undead space raiders, killer clowns and cybernetic marauders.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Things take a sad turn, though, when a band of marauders wearing masks and animal pelts charge towards the boat and open fire, hitting Cooper in the chest with an arrow.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But beneath its pretty exterior, the hyacinth hid its true nature as a malevolent marauder.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • The sheltering animals become a makeshift community of helpmates, but marauders onshore, and in the air, abound.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
  • No child, or reader of Robert Louis Stevenson, can deny the allure of pirates, but the marauders are rarely the good guys in the story.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • Nicky Katt plays Spike, a deathbike marauder wearing flagrant lipstick beneath red-black eyeshadow.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But the village was unremarkable, with nothing worth stealing, and attracted attention from neither thief nor marauder.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • To make matters worse, this was also the heyday of the Border Reivers, whole clans of cattle-stealing marauders who plundered and pillaged on both sides of the frontier.
    — Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • 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
  • After the dissolution of monasteries in 1537, pirates and marauders took over the island.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Just as fortresses were built to ward off the marauders, explorers such as Hernán Cortés launched expeditions from Cuba for the conquest of new lands and new treasures.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The greatest hit, though, is an awesome sequence where marauders in parachutes and on gliders have the high ground in an all-out attack on Jack and Furiosa's War Rig.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 May 2024
  • Armed marauders have killed scores of civilians and security forces in recent months and kidnapped hundreds of Nigerians from villages, schools, and motorways across the country.
    — Fola Aina, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2021
  • 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
  • Finding clean water is challenging, marauders roam the land, and some of the humans who remain have resorted to unthinkable behaviour, like cannibalism.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There are 10 others — a bear, dragon, fox, knight, lion, marauder, mustang, red panda, watchman and wolf — that will be narrowed to a final three via a public voting process that ends Friday.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026

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