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

He said he was worried thieves would ransack whatever belongings remained, and he now lives in his car.

From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023

“Did the light-fingered gentleman ransack the cellars?” the other repeated.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

So someone who ransacks a Goodwill to fill their closet to the brim is more likely to use their wardrobes less and get rid of their clothes in larger amounts, ultimately creating more textile waste.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026

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

Eve ransacks a work-basket and instinctively thrusts the rosy tip of her finger into a thimble.

From The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Roebuck further discovered that his workshop had been ransacked.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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

One baby ransacked her belongings, another clung to her for months as a surrogate mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

A nonprofit that provides hot meals, coffee and clothing to homeless Southern Californians is struggling to recover after its supply trailer was ransacked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

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

The elephants, after ransacking her house and eating her corn, urinated on what remained of her grain supply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

On 13 July 2022, in dramatic scenes that were broadcast around the world, crowds overran the presidential palace, jumping into the swimming pool and ransacking the house.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024

“Our city will not tolerate criminals ransacking our businesses,” Police Chief Bill Scott said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

All night he had been ransacking his desk for his notes on the British monarch of legend, notes hurriedly copied from a hundred-page survey of British history that he had once read in paperback.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole