plunders
Example Sentences
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A blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs has long served as a conservation code, with supernatural guardians believed to punish anyone who plunders the forest for greed.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
It has always been a taxing job, she says, but conditions have lately made it downright impossible, as staffing shortages nearly double her workload and a cost-of-living crisis plunders her modest paycheck.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
It helps that Lothar Koenigs, conducting, plunders the score for every last ounce of feeling, exceptionally delivered by the WNO orchestra.
From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2013
“Woe’s me and mine,” said I, “how shall they escape, ever gazing, as they are, upon the thing which blinds them more and more, and which plunders them in their blindness?”
From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry