Example Sentences

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By demonstrating that golf can rectify the landscape that a mining operation had despoiled, Old Works became another harbinger of golf's role in land reclamation.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 13, 2010

It was only later that I could see how Disney had despoiled beautiful stories and had abused the idea of animation.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 1966

By way of a balance to this wealth of hair on his chin, a precocious baldness had despoiled his forehead, which was as bare as a billiard ball.

From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Murger, Henry

The Zulus were armed, as usual, with their spears Myzukulwa willingly relinquishing his revolver to Winfield, who had also possessed himself of the rifle and ammunition of which the party had despoiled Abiram Levert.

From Into the Unknown A Romance of South Africa by Fletcher, Lawrence

Gaius had despoiled this Pompeius of his title Magnus and came very near killing him because he was so named.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin