ransack

“For a lot of people, they don’t remember that Dodger franchise, because they see today’s. You and I know what it looked like, and it was embarrassing. What he did was ransack the team.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

They’re merely following the lead of World Cup organizer FIFA, which is turning this upcoming three-nation showcase into an epic, All-American ransack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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

One night I have to run to ransack the couch cushions for my ringing phone and pick up without checking first to see who it is.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

Andrey ransacks his pockets once more to make sure.

From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Constance Garnett

Roebuck further discovered that his workshop had been ransacked.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

He said he was unaware that the interpreter regularly ransacked his bank account for more than two years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

He ransacked the penny dreadfuls in his head, trying to remember if any of their heroes had visited Australia.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

Five suspects, including one juvenile, have been arrested and charged in connection with the Jan. 2 ransacking of Ruben’s Bakery & Mexican Food, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a news conference Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 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