ransack
Example Sentences
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The offices of several environmentalist groups were ransacked in the Charente-Maritime department.
From BBC
Indoors, rooms that had been neat and orderly five minutes earlier looked like they had been ransacked.
From Literature
One baby ransacked her belongings, another clung to her for months as a surrogate mother.
A nonprofit that provides hot meals, coffee and clothing to homeless Southern Californians is struggling to recover after its supply trailer was ransacked.
From Los Angeles Times
It sat vacant for over 20 years, while animal and human scavengers ransacked the ten-acre site and claimed it for their own, before it was rescued in the 1990s by architectural preservationists.
From Salon
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