pillaging
- present participle of pillage.
Example Sentences
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Roberts’ family attorney Alan Jackson, however, said “Kelly is not pillaging anything.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Another, less grand perhaps, is the closeness of a community like Fairfax, where people volunteer their time to keep their facility open, while serial fraudsters are indicted for pillaging hospitals and overbilling the government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
Once upon a time, on June 15, 1859, 27-year-old Lyman Cutlar, a squatter on the island, discovered a pig pillaging his potatoes.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024
He also warned against "unhindered urbanisation" and criticised the "pillaging" of natural aquifers by the agriculture and construction industries.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024
Stravinsky had mischievous fun pillaging music’s dusty back catalogue with the ballet Pulcinella for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company in 1920.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
