Example Sentences

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McEwan ransacks recent U.K. history, telescoping its events into a demented counter-factual fantasia marked by insurrection and overflowing garbage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019

That can be useful when scientists or wildlife managers must relocate an animal, such as a grizzly bear that ransacks campsites for food.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2019

During a peaceful evening at church, someone ransacks the family home and steals their beloved dog.

From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2018

The radical choreographer Elizabeth Streb has grown weary of meeting people who tell her, “Oh, you’re the one who ransacks the body and runs into walls.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2015

It ransacks the Hebrew mind, the Greek mind, the Roman mind, the Italian, French, German and English mind.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)