pillage

Stereotypes of violent Northmen, sailing to slaughter and pillage, long dominated representations of the Viking Age, the period from around 750 to 1050 when Norse raiders and colonists spread throughout Europe and far beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

They also say the lands aren’t being adequately protected from those seeking to pillage natural resources and visitors who trash sacred sites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

A full-scale aid effort needs the warring parties to agree a ceasefire and to end pillage and extortion.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024

“We’re not going to sell to someone who is going to basically pillage the company,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

In days gone by, these men held Hypereia, a country of wide dancing grounds, but near them were overbearing Kyklopes, whose power could not be turned from pillage.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

It has now been a decade since that distinctive riff on “The Shining,” and for Byrne’s third feature, he once again pillages from indelible sources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

Around the ninth century, her remains were moved to the northern town of Downpatrick in hopes of avoiding the pillages of Vikings and others.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

The Empress controls the universe, and pillages the past for technologies to keep the universe safe from an alien species known as The Bleed.

From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2019

She pillages but also suavely synthesizes art’s eternal images of women from the Renaissance to Futurism and beyond: from Madonnas, angels and queens to warriors.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017

The Naïb of Damascus being jealous of Attaf's intimacy with Ja'afar imprisons him for treason and pillages his property.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Third, it was safer to have capital loaned out than in reserve, where it could be pillaged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

"Do not let your lands be pillaged... or your homes given over to the invaders," he said on social media.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

That’s due, in large part, to the University of Washington — which opted to join the Big Ten Conference and leave the Pac-12 to be pillaged.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Thought to be almost 500 years old, this giant tree has weathered many storms and survived being pillaged for firewood in 1940s post-war Britain.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2024

I can give no explanation how I came to this understanding, save that I did not want to become the blighted man who dangled before me, pillaged by the birds.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Roberts’ family attorney Alan Jackson, however, said “Kelly is not pillaging anything.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Another, less grand perhaps, is the closeness of a community like Fairfax, where people volunteer their time to keep their facility open, while serial fraudsters are indicted for pillaging hospitals and overbilling the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

It was a far cry from the claims of "looting and pillaging".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

Once upon a time, on June 15, 1859, 27-year-old Lyman Cutlar, a squatter on the island, discovered a pig pillaging his potatoes.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

Stravinsky had mischievous fun pillaging music’s dusty back catalogue with the ballet Pulcinella for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company in 1920.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall