Example Sentences

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Third, it was safer to have capital loaned out than in reserve, where it could be pillaged.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

"Do not let your lands be pillaged... or your homes given over to the invaders," he said on social media.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Serrano spent his life alleging that he’d given Rulfo a manuscript of his poetry that was never returned — and that Rulfo had pillaged it for ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

He said it was a temporary measure that was taken because “we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2023

I can give no explanation how I came to this understanding, save that I did not want to become the blighted man who dangled before me, pillaged by the birds.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi