Example Sentences

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Flashlight in hand, Tiba was concerned because wild boars had been raiding her corn, according to the village chief, Faris.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2019

Ten years before Tom Mooney went to jail, a farmer of Waterford, Conn. shot a golden eagle which had been raiding his chicken-run.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Libyans answered that it was the Egyptians who had been raiding across the border.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lieutenant Bascomb's command pursued some Apaches, who had been raiding in Sonora, into the Whetstone Mountains, where they called a parley.

From Building a State in Apache Land by Poston, Charles D. (Charles Debrille)

The horsemen at the plantation were probably a roving band of mutinous sowars from Delhi, who had been raiding, and now found the Guides between them and the city.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert