ransack

I just hope you didn’t ransack your college-savings account to do it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Overton’s 32 from 21 balls and Archer’s 17-ball 38 helped the visitors ransack 100 in the last 10 overs, including 21 off the final over.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024

By that he meant the way representatives from other schools would surely try to lure his players away, using lucrative NIL offers to ransack his team through the transfer portal.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

Thursday’s announcement that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp. prompted news organizations the world over to ransack the obituaries they have been keeping in their vaults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

I can’t leave the apartment again because Amá decided to ransack my room to make sure I didn’t have anything else that might be considered scandalous or immoral.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

McEwan ransacks recent U.K. history, telescoping its events into a demented counter-factual fantasia marked by insurrection and overflowing garbage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019

That can be useful when scientists or wildlife managers must relocate an animal, such as a grizzly bear that ransacks campsites for food.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2019

During a peaceful evening at church, someone ransacks the family home and steals their beloved dog.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2018

The radical choreographer Elizabeth Streb has grown weary of meeting people who tell her, “Oh, you’re the one who ransacks the body and runs into walls.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2015

To paint the visions she inspires, Wilde ransacks the world for magnificent colouring.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

He said he was unaware that the interpreter regularly ransacked his bank account for more than two years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Pharmacies, supermarkets and other businesses were ransacked, said residents, some of whom complained of the slow and meager post-quake aid coming from authorities.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

One baby ransacked her belongings, another clung to her for months as a surrogate mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Tom Hooper ransacked Jack Conan in the Wallabies 22 and Stadium Australia went berserk in delight.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

He had virtually ransacked Africa looking for these life forms, but despite his searches he had never found them in their natural hiding places.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The pontiff responded by saying he had a "moral duty to speak out" against war -- and then sparked more headlines with a speech in Cameroon lambasting "tyrants" ransacking the world.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

The elephants, after ransacking her house and eating her corn, urinated on what remained of her grain supply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Five suspects, including one juvenile, have been arrested and charged in connection with the Jan. 2 ransacking of Ruben’s Bakery & Mexican Food, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a news conference Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Most of the ransacking took place on the night that charges against Dial were dismissed, although six arrests were made the following night.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

All night he had been ransacking his desk for his notes on the British monarch of legend, notes hurriedly copied from a hundred-page survey of British history that he had once read in paperback.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole