How to Use raider in a Sentence

raider

noun
  • Raiders had emptied the tomb of treasure.
  • He made his fortune as a corporate raider.
  • The village needs protection from enemy raiders.
  • Be nice out there, raiders, and don't shoot.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Who were these Iron Age sea raiders?
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
  • When Dougal left, the raiders went with him.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • And this is not the first time raiders have tried to kill Gallmann.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Give me raiders of the lost past, any day, and forgive them their lack of footnotes.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • There are roving bands of raiders that, so far, have not graced my new home with a visit.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2015
  • Proud to be my baby brothers number one fan and proud to be a red raider.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Get ready for Lara Croft to go from tomb raider to fourth wall breaker.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But guards heard or spotted the raiders and a fierce firefight lighted up the night.
    — W.j. Hennigan, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • At the age of 16, Irish raiders captured him and took him as a slave.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Bill and Frank survive a raider attack and somehow live to old age.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The rabbi begins to play his flute and the raiders’ camels begin to dance to the music.
    — Steve Hindy, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2015
  • Year-end best lists are running through December like the tomb raider.
    — Vulture, 7 Dec. 2023
  • What a waste of effort for the rest of the raiders who weren’t a QB today.
    — Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Why did the raiders keep finding overstuffed pensions to exploit?
    — Mary Williams Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
  • For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • But termites, with their strong, sharp mandibles, aren’t easy prey, and raiders often get limbs bitten off in the fight.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Axis commanders were now aware of the danger of British raiders from the desert.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Raiders have clinched at least a share of the Freeway League championship.
    — Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
  • At the time, corporate raiders were big in the news, junk-bond guys were taking over companies.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Millions couldn’t escape the raiders on the continent.
    — Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Crimson Tide’s raiders of the west coast smell blood — Pac-12 blood.
    — Jon Wilner Pac-12 Hotline, The Seattle Times, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The raiders just went on a 7-0 run to take a 68-67 lead with under six minutes to play.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • While raiders still rampaged, the Tonkawa more than doubled the number of the city's defenders.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The raiders posted pickets at each end of Main Street, and began searching for horses.
    — Cincinnati.com, 26 July 2017
  • All of them have been broken into by raiders over the centuries, their walls smashed or lids prised off despite once being locked shut with metal clasps.
    — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Raiders coach Jack Del Rio showed the 31-year-old Lynch still has some gas left in the tank on the field.
    — Geoffrey C. Arnold, OregonLive.com, 6 June 2017

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