pillages
- present tense form of pillage (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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It has now been a decade since that distinctive riff on “The Shining,” and for Byrne’s third feature, he once again pillages from indelible sources.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
Around the ninth century, her remains were moved to the northern town of Downpatrick in hopes of avoiding the pillages of Vikings and others.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
The Empress controls the universe, and pillages the past for technologies to keep the universe safe from an alien species known as The Bleed.
From The Verge • Jun. 15, 2019
She pillages but also suavely synthesizes art’s eternal images of women from the Renaissance to Futurism and beyond: from Madonnas, angels and queens to warriors.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2017
It still conceals, no doubt, numberless treasures confided to it in the days of slaughters and pillages, when the armies of the Persian and Nubian kings forced the thick, surrounding walls.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter
