plundered

Example Sentences

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Hermann Goering, a top Nazi official, plundered Goudstikker's entire collection when the art dealer fled to England in 1940.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Kyiv plundered warehouses for veteran Soviet antiaircraft guns and fitted heavy machine guns, some almost a century old, with thermal imaging systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

In an abandoned warehouse in Johannesburg, Prof Grace sets out her high-stakes plan - to break into museums and private collections and take back artefacts mostly plundered during colonial times.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

He ran up debts, plundered her money and spun a story about a blackmailer from prison coming for them.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

I think sometimes that he was an invention, and in some ways he is, because when the young are killed, they are haloed by all that was possible, all that was plundered.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates