[
UK
/məɹˈɔːdɪŋ/
]
[ US /mɝˈɔdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /mɝˈɔdɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
bands of marauding Indians
predatory warfare
a raiding party
How To Use marauding In A Sentence
- 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.
- Throughout his 13-year career, Taylor was a marauding, intimidating presence who helped transform the Giants from also-rans into champions.
- This marauding gang moved through the streets stabbing people at random.
- I worried also about the nature of our neighborhood, which is a redneck Shangri-La of big dawgs, trucks with bad mufflers, heavily armed Gomers, and gangs of marauding feral boys with BB guns.
- Seldom has a central banker looked more secure in his war against marauding politicians.
- So if someone decides to violate the Treaty and start marauding around the Moon, who will stop them?
- A night fisherman had to get hospital treatment for a facial wound after being attacked in his tent by a marauding fox. Times, Sunday Times
- The Danes also hold an annual celebration of somewhat less genteel ancestors — the marauding Vikings.
- A night fisherman had to get hospital treatment for a facial wound after being attacked in his tent by a marauding fox. Times, Sunday Times
- The crossing of the Ngoni, one of the biggest tribes fleeing from the marauding impis of Shaka Zulu, coincided with an eclipse of the sun.