How to Use maraud in a Sentence

maraud

verb
  • Marcos Alonso was allowed to maraud down the left wing and square to the edge of the box.
    — Tom Roddy, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Who in his right mind wants to be surrounded by marauding tourists?
    — Gully Wells, WSJ, 9 May 2018
  • Masuaku was in top form on Saturday, marauding down the left to fire in the assist for Sebastien Haller.
    — SI.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • These rebel gangs—viewed by the neighboring Egyptians as both a nuisance and a threat—maraud the nearby villages.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
  • Racist mobs marauded unchecked through the South, killing African-Americans.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 17 May 2019
  • And that’s quite the gamble for the jewels, since the forest stocks no shortage of not only marauding ants, but other fiends like wasps and birds.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2015
  • Explore with care and steer clear of anglers casting lines and gaggles of marauding geese.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 5 July 2019
  • There’s no more drought, the summer has been mild and the leaves — largely spared by marauding gypsy moth caterpillars — look healthy.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • There's no more drought, the summer has been mild and the leaves — largely spared by marauding gypsy moth caterpillars — look healthy.
    — courant.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • There’s no more drought, the summer has been mild and the leaves — largely spared by marauding gypsy moth caterpillars — look healthy.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • There’s no more drought, the summer has been mild and the leaves — largely spared by marauding gypsy moth caterpillars — look healthy.
    — William J. Kole, The Seattle Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Think bored and drunk young men marauding through neighborhoods, mayhem on their minds.
    — CNN, 2 June 2017
  • Cities felt burned by the rise of grey-area-exploiters and light-rule-breakers like, cough, Uber and Lyft, which marauded their way into local markets just a few years ago.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 1 June 2018
  • Fort George provided a defense of the harbor from marauding ships.
    — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Soon, armed men were marauding through the streets of the royal capital on motorbikes and by foot wielding machetes and sticks.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, WIRED, 6 July 2018
  • One woman asked what to do about marauding raccoons in an overgrown lot near her home, and learned the city does not do wild animal removal.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 21 July 2017
  • Unchecked, the starfish’s barnacle prey went wild — only to then be devoured by marauding mussels.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • So far, the victims of marauding visitors haven’t had much luck stemming the barbarian tide.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • That’s all fine and good for shows that might appeal to a younger, less hard-drinking crowd, but what about the midnight marauding EDM audience, who are used to, and expect, the party to go all night long?
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The young German did brilliantly to maraud his way to the byline, only for Batshuayi to scuff his effort away from goal, when wonderfully placed in the six-yard box.
    — SI.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • There are mountains of trash, animals marauding and people piled on each other.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The pirates eventually moved on to maraud someone else.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 25 July 2019
  • On Saturday summer evenings, my dad, brother, cousins, Uncle Hans, and I spent countless hours there plinking at marauding rats.
    — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Here at Thailand’s largest navy base, an enemy lurks within: packs of marauding monkeys that have taken over parts of the facility in their search for chips, nuts and maybe a bar of chocolate or two.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Most of the people sharing photos of domineering goats and marauding boars are not expressing a latent death wish.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • But the herd has defied all social distancing orders, marauding into the seaside town of Llandudno in North Wales several times in the past week.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But golly, there everyone was with the park’s night-marauding raccoons after the White all-stars knocked off the tournament’s only unbeaten team 4-3.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2018
  • Patience was key in the second half, as Arkadiusz Milik beat the offside trap and with Gollini marauding off his line, the Pole rounded the goalkeeper and slotted into an empty net.
    — SI.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Imprisoned within the Great Wall of China, a mercenary warrior joins forces with an elite army to battle an onslaught of marauding monsters.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • In other parts of the country, marauding gunmen known locally as bandits have carried out mass kidnappings mostly for ransom.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023

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