pillage

Example Sentences

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All through the day and into the night the mobs roamed the streets — burning, pillaging, shouting — until finally Qavam resigned and the Shah recalled the troops to their garrisons.

From Seattle Times

The storm approached as more than 200,000 people in Haiti are displaced, having to stay with family or in makeshift shelters because warring gangs pillaged and set fire to their homes.

From Seattle Times

A shopper who uploaded a video of the chaos captured pillaged clothing racks, broken display counters and ringing clothing sensor tag alarms.

From Los Angeles Times

Aurora witnessed unimaginable atrocities: rivers teeming with corpses, children begging for their lives, bandits pillaging the caravans of survivors.

From New York Times

With the Pac-12’s most valuable properties effectively pillaged, only Washington State, Oregon State, Stanford and California remain.

From Seattle Times