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

Would that Hector had slain me, who here was nurtured the bravest; then a brave man would he have slain, and have despoiled a brave man.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

All but you and Sir Hugh l'Estrange, they have despoiled and plagued the folk.

From Masters of the Guild by Lamprey, L.

The concussion would have despoiled us of a hundred volumes, and Heaven can witness what volumes!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831 by Various

But on account of those you have despoiled and oppressed, I take this money, and will use it far more worthily than you would.

From Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker)