plundered

Example Sentences

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What rankles more is his only international T20 appearance three weeks later, when Ireland plundered 52 from his four overs.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Kyiv plundered warehouses for veteran Soviet antiaircraft guns and fitted heavy machine guns, some almost a century old, with thermal imaging systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

In an abandoned warehouse in Johannesburg, Prof Grace sets out her high-stakes plan - to break into museums and private collections and take back artefacts mostly plundered during colonial times.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

The case also ensnared global banking firm Goldman Sachs, which helped raise $6.5 billion for the now-defunct fund that prosecutors say was plundered of $4.5 billion between 2009 and 2015.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

She hugged all of us except Dad—she had refused to speak a word to him since he plundered Oz—promised to write, and climbed into the station wagon.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls