despoiling

Example Sentences

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Plastic, along with other litter, is also despoiling the landscape and polluting our waterways.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Residents of Papua New Guinea have accused the mining company Rio Tinto of violating their human rights by despoiling the land where they live.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

This waste is clogging landfills, despoiling the oceans and harming wildlife.

From Reuters • Dec. 28, 2021

Using strong words like decay, despoiling, vanishing, and violated, Johnson connects his argument to emotions—mostly fear—the audience would feel about such destruction of nature and values.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

“We are on the trail of a gang of international thieves who came to France for the purpose of despoiling our museums,” a police spokesman announced.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day