ransack
verb (used with object)
to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.).
have been ransacking
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present perfect progressiveof ransack.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Your cronies, who have been ransacking the place, disrupting the workforce and displaying their ignorance at every turn of how to run a social internet platform, need to be gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
Feral pigs have been ransacking Bob Rulf's farm in Peru, N.Y., on the banks of Lake Champlain, eating apples and other crops.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2012
After all, for decades scientists and others have been ransacking the brain for the soul of an equally mysterious power: genius.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Hans Brauchli of Johns Hopkins University is one of many scientists who have been ransacking the earth for germanium, the rare and elusive metal that is made into transistors.
From Time Magazine Archive
He’s sure to tell us a good deal that we don’t know, and although I have been ransacking Bombay ever since I arrived, for information, I don’t yet feel that I know much.”
From The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
