Example Sentences

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Metaphors may have no place at a concentration camp, but it’s hard to look at this beautiful enclosed space and not see it, perversely, as the most despoiled of Edens.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Playing the last days of Romanian communism as frenzied farce, Lucian Pintilie’s “The Oak” is set in a world so despoiled a Hieronymus Bosch landscape might seem bucolic by comparison.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Too much of Seattle has been despoiled by the greed and power of developers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022

The natural environment with which Native Americans had established a harmonious and symbiotic relationship, was similarly despoiled by the twin logic of expropriation and colonization that spread under the logic of manifest destiny.

From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2021

The search revealed four despoiled graves, three skeletons, Crozier's original camp and his daily bivouacs during his fatal southward march, the Erebus Bay boat, and the record deposited by McClintock in 1859.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.