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 ransack my mind and come up with nothing.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

He not only ransacks his memory for data bearing on his problem, but he finally "sees" the solution clearly.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth

Roebuck further discovered that his workshop had been ransacked.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The stolen antiquities follow other types of bounty the RSF has ransacked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

In one widely shared video, a man drives a soldier and an official from his ransacked home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

Even in the fading light I could tell the house was a disaster; it looked like it’d been ransacked by thieves.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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

As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

A Los Angeles city councilmember is calling for more police officers and resources following the latest in a string of robberies and ransacking at 7-Eleven convenience stores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

I imagined the searchers ransacking the trunks and drawers and drilling holes in the walls to look for hidden valuables.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang