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.
US troops took Baghdad, then stood by as marauding gangs looted the city. Times, Sunday Times
And many lower officers and constabulary had full sympathy with the marauding mobs.
There is an abundance of native birds living alongside badgers, deer and the marauding foxes which cleared out the bantams of a previous tenant.
Prospector George Tannihill christened it in 1866 as a mining district, saying he chose the name to commemorate the fierce battle he and twenty-three settlers led by a Captain Pierson had heroically won against marauding Indians there in 1857. The Fiddler in the Subway
They went in fear of attack by marauding bands.
Fear of the marauding rabble of dispossessed poor has existed for centuries.
Now, it would have been far better to have passed on to the land beyond or swing back to earth again, for a borderland is the most unsafe land in which to dwell on account of its roaming herds of wild beasts, marauding, vicious men, and dangers too numerous to mention. Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,
The trucks tried to drive to the British base, running the gauntlet of marauding bands of gunmen.
Houses are surrounded by high walls topped by electric fences to keep out marauding bands of robbers. Times, Sunday Times
People always used to call me a marauding full-back. The Sun
Following complaints from villagers that the sheep were marauding through their gardens, metal road grids were installed as a deterrent.
DC Manning parked directly outside on the yellow line, propping his log book on the dashboard for any marauding traffic warden. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Perhaps a lioness protecting her cubs, an angry hippo or maybe a marauding herd of bull elephants? The Sun
Naturally, this ultimate injustice sends the marauding youth into all-out frenzy when they descend upon the community in a violent final confrontation.
For a second her mind broke free of the constraints of logic, imagining playful pixies and marauding dragons; captured princesses and vengeful princes.
Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies.
They ceded the streets to marauding looters.
Findhorn, the eco-spiritual community that espouses love and respect to the earth, plants and animals, has employed a gamekeeper to shoot marauding deer on its land.
I am a proper marauding Viking. Times, Sunday Times
They were deployed to protect civilians from marauding paramilitary forces on both sides of the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
His job in front of the back four was just as important as marauding forward. The Sun
Like most merchant houses, Yin Yu Tang was built to discourage attacks by marauding bandits and soldiers.
Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies.
Houses are surrounded by high walls topped by electric fences to keep out marauding bands of robbers. Times, Sunday Times
In spite, however, of all the marauding, some terrible scores had to be run up with the "frier" of the Rue de la Grand Truanderie. The Fat and the Thin
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.
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.
Quality diagonal passes and marauding runs. The Sun
We danced down the craggy coast and ducked into Robin Hood's Bay, the former home to gangs of marauding smugglers who would steal booty from ships wrecked on the treacherous offshore rocks.
Houses are surrounded by high walls topped by electric fences to keep out marauding bands of robbers. Times, Sunday Times
The marauding full-back burst into the box and drilled home in the final minute of normal time. The Sun
It also provided protection from marauding northern barbarian tribes.
Hollywood decided this part of the world was all about the lone sheriff facing gangs of gunmen and innocent settlers fending off marauding Indians.
Burnley have been grinding out results and Eagles has helped with his marauding runs from midfield. The Sun
They went out and joined other soldiers fussing in the streets, marauding the city.
All summer long I battled successive invasions by the marauding black squirrels that lived in the graceful apricot tree outside our window.
In fact, the colony of 3,000 seals is pupping now: weaning their fluffy young, scrapping with their sisters and chasing off marauding bulls keen to get them pregnant again.
But when central authority broke down, marauding bands lay waste to the land and turned it back into pasturage.
Here and there, only, did some little partisan squad make a stand, or offer a show of resistance to the incursive British or the marauding and malignant tory -- disbanding, if not defeated, most usually after the temporary object had been obtained, and retreating for security into shelter and inaction. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
Burnley have been grinding out results and Eagles has helped with his marauding runs from midfield. The Sun
The colony of 3,000 seals is pupping now: weaning their fluffy young, scrapping with their sisters and chasing off marauding bulls keen to get them pregnant again.
They want us recoil in horror and call off attempts to stop them marauding to power. The Sun
Quality diagonal passes and marauding runs. The Sun
If marauding gulls appear, the aunties sound an alarm and the young cluster tightly around them.
bands of marauding Indians
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.
Gravesen plays another very classy pass in behind the defence, but the marauding Bogelund overhits his cross.
Witnesses reported gangs of marauding soldiers breaking into people's houses and setting fire to them.
I hope your brand new Lowe daysack helps keep your butties safe from those marauding sheep.
But soon it will fall prey to the marauding demonic forces of evil.
They want us recoil in horror and call off attempts to stop them marauding to power. The Sun
Wanted to keep all the marauding Murphy's Harbour bachelors away from your door. SNOWJOB
That'll teach those spindly creepsters to come marauding round my neck of the woods.
They were deployed to protect civilians from marauding paramilitary forces on both sides of the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
Response: This is an adult scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus, a member of the genus Tyrannus, so named for their pugnacious nature when defending their territories against marauding crows and other, even larger, predators. Mystery bird: scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus
Houses are surrounded by high walls topped by electric fences to keep out marauding bands of robbers. Times, Sunday Times
Seldom has a central banker looked more secure in his war against marauding politicians.
When he sings about his marauding dipsomania and the opposite sex tearing his heart from his body, then stamping and twisting their heel into his hyper-sensitive organ on the squalid street, it rings true.
At least twice the marauding Anglo-Burgundian battalions had attacked Joan's village before her departure.
He focused on the largest indent and breathed but the holes in the moon reminded him not of a face but of lacunae, the holes in his body left behind by marauding white blood cells that multiplied and multiplied until they conquered the red cells and built their own fortresses, lemon-sized lumps circling his kidney. Mountain Pose
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.
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.
The river has survived so far the marauding sand miners and the polluters.
There she learned to both respect and fear the power of beef, as marauding groups of bovines perpetrated numerous acts of violence in a gang war that lasted decades.
Since then, they were more like marauding nomads.
The herd solves this problem by forming a defensive circle when marauding wolves attack.
Marauding warriors with horned helmets who slaughtered monks and carried off treasures are at the heart of the popular image of the Viking invasions of the British Isles.
Once the guardians of the citadel granted permission to open the gates, is it any surprise that the marauding hordes came storming through?
They may have seen the decision to withdraw Endurance as confirmation of their broader analysis arrived at over a period of several years (some might argue going back to the 1960s) but were still sufficiently alarmed by the thought of an SSN marauding about the oggin to bring forward their attack. Army Rumour Service
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.
Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death.
Its commanding position allowed tribes of centuries gone by to spot marauding Vikings and other undesirables approaching their territory.
Those on the streets are vulnerable to marauding soldiers and criminals.
The mere outbreak of war sets black soldiers to looting and marauding, and war's end, and their elevation to positions of power, drives the simple souls batty.
Besides, the rape of infidel women is sanctioned in the Koran and the sunnah, the meshugga 'prophet' practised it and encouraged his murdering, marauding compagnons to do the same. Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
Should you on your journey be startled out of your reveries by marauding dogs snapping and barking at your heels, take note of these guidelines, they may be of help.
In the years following its rebirth in 1948, the small state of Israel faced regular deadly raids from marauding groups (called "fedayeen") -- sponsored by Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. The World's Deadly Obsession With Israel
DC Manning parked directly outside on the yellow line, propping his log book on the dashboard for any marauding traffic warden. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Venison and beef, dried in the sun, or over the fire by the process called jerking, was prepared in the season of abundance for winter use, and proved the best sort of food for a marauding corps. The Partisan Leader: A Novel...
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.
Ten years of marauding the high seas had left him with a ruthless look in his gem-green eyes.
His vigilantes continue marauding the country irreligiously.
With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.
It's becoming one of the great sights in the game, watching the young Portuguese international marauding down the wing spilling out tricks and swerves in a manner not dissimilar to a certain Irishman in the 60s.
Play that riff out loud, a mob with burning torches marauding through the Wharf sounds reasonable. Times, Sunday Times
Play that riff out loud, a mob with burning torches marauding through the Wharf sounds reasonable. Times, Sunday Times
Di Giorgio Martini's fortress walls splay outwards, down to the sea to repel marauding buccaneers.
Others had been servants to Protestants; and the Protestants added, with bitter scorn, that it was fortunate for the country when this was the case; for that a menial who had cleaned the plate and rubbed down the horse of an English gentleman might pass for a civilised being, when compared with many of the native aristocracy whose lives had been spent in coshering or marauding. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
Marauding sharks scent blood and surely and ineluctably move in for their evening meal.
Gangs of marauding teenagers descend on the town at weekends and often become involved in criminal activity while drunk.
Quality diagonal passes and marauding runs. The Sun
S. Peter and Calabria, were given over to marauding bandits; wide tracks of fertile country, like the S.enese Maremma, were abandoned to malaria; wolves prowled through empty villages round Milan; in every city the pestilence swept off its hundreds daily; manufactures, commerce, agriculture, the industries of town and rural district, ceased; the Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
A shotgun blast from one of the officers put an end to the dog's marauding.
Following complaints from villagers that the sheep were marauding through their gardens, metal road grids were installed as a deterrent.
Just two minutes later, the marauding Jamaicans added the third when the goalkeeper failed to hold onto Damani Ralph's thunderbolt and Hyde responded fastest to ram home from inside the box.
The peaceful citizens of this State persecuted by the marauding mercenaries should not be forced to mount demonstration to get the state machinery moving.
Marauding dogs massacred ewes in lamb in Aramoho at the weekend.
Quality diagonal passes and marauding runs. The Sun
And many lower officers and constabulary had full sympathy with the marauding mobs.
opstande en strooptogte en vandalisme" (revolt, marauding raids, vandalism) and fuelled by the "tsotsi" element, was a tragic example of how a 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
Transported to this bleak planet only to be confronted by a marauding gang of giant tortoises.
US troops took Baghdad, then stood by as marauding gangs looted the city. Times, Sunday Times
His paternal instincts would naturally take over and he would do whatever was necessary to protect his daughter from these marauding psychopaths.
During an expedition to the frontier for the object of punishing a marauding party, his company was ambuscaded and made a desperate resistance, but were overpowered and put to flight.
Fu-Manchu is back, and he has added to his collection of marauding monkey-like miscreants, and obtained a baboon killer. Archive 2007-03-01
marauding rebels overran the countryside
Gangs of marauding teenagers descend on the town at weekends and often become involved in criminal activity while drunk.
Play that riff out loud, a mob with burning torches marauding through the Wharf sounds reasonable. Times, Sunday Times
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.
He is driven to find his captured niece Debbie, who was kidnapped by marauding Comanches.
When our shores were cleared of marauding invaders and peace restored to the Six Duchies, King Verity kept his pledge to the Elderlings. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Play that riff out loud, a mob with burning torches marauding through the Wharf sounds reasonable. Times, Sunday Times
Surely the job of an army is to slaughter marauding foreigners, not its own troops?
Both were marauding, tribal war-leaders whose main aim was to bring military glory to themselves and their followers.
A gang of marauding youngsters terrorised parish councillors by flinging a brick at the window of their meeting room and trying to force their way in through a fire door.
They aren't, however, in a military vein and range in diversity from the carnage caused by a marauding horde of escaped circus animals to a matricidal five-year-old.
He stands about two hands high, is of a reseda-green shade, except when in anger, and has no distinguishing marks except the absence of a piece of the right ear, which was carried off by a marauding Irish terrier. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920
This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who then immerse themselves in unabashed consumerism, taking what they want from an array of clothing and jewelry shops, making gourmet meals, etc. Dawn of the Dead (original) | BuyZombie.com
But a few complaints were more serious in nature: six marauding bruins broke into houses this year to raid the cupboards, and three farmers reported livestock kills.
If marauding gulls appear, the aunties sound an alarm and the young cluster tightly around them.
In it, a Sami village is attacked by a marauding tribe from the east called the Tjudes.
One time, it will be a great, iron automaton, defending the countryside from the marauding army of the vile Duke Ivanovski. 365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The owner of the house where she and the baby were staying confirmed that marauding youths from the governing party had attacked the house.
Houses are surrounded by high walls topped by electric fences to keep out marauding bands of robbers. Times, Sunday Times
The marauding full-back burst into the box and drilled home in the final minute of normal time. The Sun
The British Foreign Office was advising travellers to avoid the country while it dogged with marauding gangs of bandits.
Sheep have been attacked by marauding dogs in the Bushfield and Davros area in recent times.
They were deployed to protect civilians from marauding paramilitary forces on both sides of the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
On Monday, the Ministry of Culture issued a notice banning online games that feature Mafioso kingpins, marauding street gangs or any sort of hooliganism predisposed to organization.
After a marauding Amoruso run upfield, and a Latapy through ball, Michael Mols held off Laursen for a close-range chance which seemed unmissable.
I am a proper marauding Viking. Times, Sunday Times
For many, it's a no-go area, where the chances are you'll be beaten up or worse by marauding gangs.
His job in front of the back four was just as important as marauding forward. The Sun
Houses are surrounded by high walls topped by electric fences to keep out marauding bands of robbers. Times, Sunday Times
They were deployed to protect civilians from marauding paramilitary forces on both sides of the sectarian divide. Times, Sunday Times
Play that riff out loud, a mob with burning torches marauding through the Wharf sounds reasonable. Times, Sunday Times
When night falls and security wanes, the janjaweed militias come marauding through the camps and attack the women.
People always used to call me a marauding full-back. The Sun
Marauding badgers are again tunnelling under a pre-school.
They dealt with everything from lost travelers to foolish bandits or marauding beasts, and were not to be trifled with. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR

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