Sentence examples for a plundering from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a plundering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an act of stealing or taking goods by force, often in a violent or aggressive manner.
Example: "The village suffered greatly after a plundering by the invading forces, leaving homes and businesses in ruins."
Alternatives: "a looting" or "a pillaging".

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"That means going after officials who abuse ordinary Afghans and drive them to the other side -- a plundering landlord or a brutal, thieving cop".

Pratchett has, in the past, called it both a plundering of and a tribute to Tolkien and the other fantasy writers – from ER Eddison to Ursula Le Guin.

"That means going after officials who abuse ordinary Afghans and drive them to the other side — a plundering landlord or a brutal, thieving cop".

In both cases, teachers have fought against public education budget cuts at a time of upward redistribution of wealth, hollowing out of public goods and assault by a plundering billionaire class – and won.

The future of film, he anticipated, correctly in terms of the 1980s, would mirror the desecration that had befallen the west - a plundering by greedy prospectors, a homogenisation of the medium, "an endless stream of sequels and look-alikes".

According to a nearly contemporaneous source, Solomon died on a plundering raid in the Byzantine Empire.

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"It is a plunder.

Showing that a plundered book is not the only source is also a defence.

These dishes are rich, a plunder of animal salts, and yet the chicken is what I remember.

However, so far he has been unable to slow a plunder that has crippled Iraq's governance.

Even carnivorous fish can be fed sustainably, by feeding them on fish that has been caught from a renewable (and not a plundered) fishery.

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