Definition of marauding in English:
marauding
adjective məˈrɔːdɪŋməˈrɔdɪŋ
Going about in search of things to steal or people to attack.
marauding gangs of youths
Example sentencesExamples
- Since then, they were more like marauding nomads.
- They ceded the streets to marauding looters.
- The peaceful citizens of this State persecuted by the marauding mercenaries should not be forced to mount demonstration to get the state machinery moving.
- Consequently, the Magyars received their knowledge of Christianity partly from the Catholic population already existing in the country, and partly from the ecclesiastics whom they captured in their marauding expeditions.
- But soon it will fall prey to the marauding demonic forces of evil.
- In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
- However, it was never intended as a stronghold in the sense that Clitheroe Castle was, but simply a place of retreat from the marauding bands of Border raiders.
- Historians have traced the law of war to chivalric codes followed by knights and to efforts by the medieval Catholic Church to protect pilgrims and clergy from marauding warriors.
- It is not precisely determined when leprosy first made its appearance in Norway, but it likely entered Norway from the British Isles during the time of marauding Vikings.
- Naturally, this ultimate injustice sends the marauding youth into all-out frenzy when they descend upon the community in a violent final confrontation.
- Gangs of marauding teenagers descend on the town at weekends and often become involved in criminal activity while drunk.
- Usurpers within the caliphate and the marauding Berber armies they brought in from North Africa were to blame, but for a time Cordoba was the ornament of the world.
- Its commanding position allowed tribes of centuries gone by to spot marauding Vikings and other undesirables approaching their territory.
- Hollywood decided this part of the world was all about the lone sheriff facing gangs of gunmen and innocent settlers fending off marauding Indians.
- His paternal instincts would naturally take over and he would do whatever was necessary to protect his daughter from these marauding psychopaths.
- Surely the job of an army is to slaughter marauding foreigners, not its own troops?
- By tomorrow, it will be impossible to enjoy a cruise or even a day of fishing without being boarded by a marauding bunch of hook-handed ocean bandits.
- Those on the streets are vulnerable to marauding soldiers and criminals.
- Once the guardians of the citadel granted permission to open the gates, is it any surprise that the marauding hordes came storming through?
- The owner of the house where she and the baby were staying confirmed that marauding youths from the governing party had attacked the house.
Definition of marauding in US English:
marauding
adjectiveməˈrɔdɪŋməˈrôdiNG
Going about in search of things to steal or people to attack.
marauding gangs of youths
Example sentencesExamples
- Those on the streets are vulnerable to marauding soldiers and criminals.
- In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
- Since then, they were more like marauding nomads.
- The owner of the house where she and the baby were staying confirmed that marauding youths from the governing party had attacked the house.
- However, it was never intended as a stronghold in the sense that Clitheroe Castle was, but simply a place of retreat from the marauding bands of Border raiders.
- But soon it will fall prey to the marauding demonic forces of evil.
- Historians have traced the law of war to chivalric codes followed by knights and to efforts by the medieval Catholic Church to protect pilgrims and clergy from marauding warriors.
- Once the guardians of the citadel granted permission to open the gates, is it any surprise that the marauding hordes came storming through?
- By tomorrow, it will be impossible to enjoy a cruise or even a day of fishing without being boarded by a marauding bunch of hook-handed ocean bandits.
- Its commanding position allowed tribes of centuries gone by to spot marauding Vikings and other undesirables approaching their territory.
- It is not precisely determined when leprosy first made its appearance in Norway, but it likely entered Norway from the British Isles during the time of marauding Vikings.
- Consequently, the Magyars received their knowledge of Christianity partly from the Catholic population already existing in the country, and partly from the ecclesiastics whom they captured in their marauding expeditions.
- Surely the job of an army is to slaughter marauding foreigners, not its own troops?
- Naturally, this ultimate injustice sends the marauding youth into all-out frenzy when they descend upon the community in a violent final confrontation.
- Gangs of marauding teenagers descend on the town at weekends and often become involved in criminal activity while drunk.
- The peaceful citizens of this State persecuted by the marauding mercenaries should not be forced to mount demonstration to get the state machinery moving.
- They ceded the streets to marauding looters.
- Hollywood decided this part of the world was all about the lone sheriff facing gangs of gunmen and innocent settlers fending off marauding Indians.
- His paternal instincts would naturally take over and he would do whatever was necessary to protect his daughter from these marauding psychopaths.
- Usurpers within the caliphate and the marauding Berber armies they brought in from North Africa were to blame, but for a time Cordoba was the ornament of the world.