Because of its rapacious appetite, the shark is often considered to be more of an eating machine than a living creature.

Our rapacious neighbors have maxed out five different credit cards because they always have to have something newer and better.

The Vikings had a reputation for being merciless conquerors, and they were rapacious about taking away as much loot from their raids as their ships could carry.

Even though Bruno is always happy to give you a loan at a ridiculously high interest rate, if you don’t pay him back on time he becomes a rapacious bill collector.

She inherited fortunes from her previous four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances, so it’s pretty clear that Delilah is nothing but a rapacious black widow.

Once this breed has been trained as an attack dog, it develops a rapacious instinct for the kill.

According to early historical documents, ancient rulers were rapacious tyrants who could never acquire enough wealth or power.

The rapacious developer kept trying to procure all the property he could, and he was using fraudulent means to get people to sell their land to him for ridiculously low prices.

Because of his aggressive pursuit of new clients for his law office, Daniel has a reputation as a rapacious ambulance chaser.

This forest is rumored to shelter a clan of rapacious vampires who prowl among the trees every night looking for fresh victims.