despoiled
Example Sentences
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Metaphors may have no place at a concentration camp, but it’s hard to look at this beautiful enclosed space and not see it, perversely, as the most despoiled of Edens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Too much of Seattle has been despoiled by the greed and power of developers.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
They despoiled the building with their urine and feces.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
The natural environment with which Native Americans had established a harmonious and symbiotic relationship, was similarly despoiled by the twin logic of expropriation and colonization that spread under the logic of manifest destiny.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2021
Because he was a good man and our faithful friend, therefore hast thou despoiled his wife.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
