Example Sentences

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In recent years, Hollywood blockbusters have recognized that oceans are in a state of crisis and have focused on how colonial forces are plundering oceans everywhere, from Earth to Pandora.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2023

Activists charge that families and cronies of the country’s all-powerful military are plundering the state’s jade and other natural resources, such as timber and gold.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2016

To see how locals are plundering their heritage, travel to the desolate villages southeast of Xi'an, the city that is home to China's famed terra-cotta warriors.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are well officered and behave with as much regularity as possible, while the Eastern people are plundering everything that comes in their way.

From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Johnston, Henry P.

"Say just a word to them," urged Leon; "tell them to come to-night to Carabine's, where du Tillet gives a fete apropos of railways,—they are plundering more than ever on the roads."

From Unconscious Comedians by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott