pillager

Example Sentences

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One picture of the Vikings, she says, is of them "being raiders and pillagers and attacking monasteries - then they turn into these more peaceful Norse settlers".

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Newcomers stop by dressed as maidens, fearsome pillagers or rogues, some hidden under feathered caps and others under parasols, all sinking their teeth into the tender, smoky birds, the scent like a siren song.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2022

At the other: Some of Earth’s most prolific pillagers are burning ill-gotten gains as fuel to fulfill their boyhood fantasies while the planet collapses beneath them.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Since this isn’t the Middle Ages, the evil adversary isn’t deploying siege engines or an army of pillagers.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2019

Now, a thousand householders in the streets of this oppressed city, with their gods and their goods in their arms, made the pillagers of Simon and John laugh aloud.

From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Leyendecker, Frank X.