have despoiled
- present perfect of despoil.
Example Sentences
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Artifishal, a new documentary about salmon, might, in less capable hands, have been a tiresome screed, another damning diary of how humans have despoiled the Earth.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
Mark would have despoiled mankind of his crown in the name of wisdom; he would acknowledge in him nothing but an animal organism.
From The Precipice by Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich
I have robbed you of the woman you love, but I have despoiled myself.
From Initials Only by Green, Anna Katharine
Young, beautiful, and endowed with qualities of the highest order, she was surrounded with enemies whose envy and ambition would have despoiled her of her splendid rights.
From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Grattan, Thomas Colley
In 1834, the Boston and Providence Railroad cut through this estate, and from time to time other innovations have despoiled it of its grandeur and beauty.
From Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain by Whitcomb, Harriet Manning
