Sentence examples for Was pillaging from inspiring English sources

Every employee I ever worked with in my old cubicle-dwelling days was pillaging the company on a regular basis, too.

This was a self-justifying analysis, of course, given that the Raj was pillaging the subcontinent's historical wealth with the same voraciousness as it had plundered the teakwood and tea.

Vane was then sent to York in June 1644, then besieged by three Parliament armies, to urge Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester to divert some of those forces to face Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who had recently taken Liverpool and was pillaging properties of Parliamentary supporters in Lancashire.

"Once upon a time there was pillaging, and this is something similar, in that there are still wild people who use their power to reach their objectives.

Vien Chan was pillaged and destroyed.

The area was pillaged, women were raped, murders committed.

It was pillaged by Sir Francis Drake in 1578.

Cottabato town was pillaged under the leadership of Datto Ali and of his brother, Datto Djimbangan.

It was pillaged and burned by the British during the American Revolution.

The town was pillaged by the English in a surprise attack in 1758.

In 1592 Saint-Brieuc was pillaged by the Spaniards and in 1601 ravaged by the plague.