despoliation
Example Sentences
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Matt: Environmental despoliation appears multiple times in “Andor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Others, including conservationists and environmentalists, fear pollution and despoliation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2020
Any further despoliation of the oceans would have to be stopped, including the dumping of wastes, plastics, engine fuel, and runoff pesticides.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2020
But it takes work to see them, to look past the pervasive despoliation and reconcile the rough hand of man with the fragility of old forests and mountains.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017
During the Revolution the cathedral suffered much despoliation, as was usual, and only came through the trial in a somewhat imperfect and poverty-stricken condition.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
