Sentence examples for are being ransacked from inspiring English sources

Three-quarter empty supermarkets are being ransacked by angry, hungry mobs.

Almost monthly your family photos, your birth certificate, and your diary are being ransacked or nearly ransacked by criminals.

Public libraries are being ransacked, modern books and old manuscripts from the Ottoman Empire burned.

Oil installations and oil lines were captured and guarded first; the oil ministry was protected while priceless art treasures were being ransacked.

We heard that Saddam City, a large workers' slum in northeastern Baghdad, was being looted, and I drove in that direction with some other journalists, on a divided highway full of cars moving erratically, past the Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of Transport, which were being ransacked by men and boys.

Cooper rejected Abu Khattala's claim to be a "bystander," saying he helped launch an attack that foreseeably led to death by driving his men to the mission where they stormed the gates, spoke with them throughout the attack, carried an assault rifle into an office while it was being ransacked and drove afterward to the camp of another extremist group.

Much of the 'Lost Boy's' biography is replayed in his head while he lies bound and gagged on the floor of his Atlanta apartment, which is being ransacked by burglars; having fought so long and hard for his American identity, he is mute and referred to by the gangsters simply as 'Africa'.

My beloved hometown of Chicago is being ransacked by gang violence.

Yet under state control, Pemex underproduces, underperforms, and is being ransacked by organized crime.

In fact, Greece is being ransacked and left unprotected, like a house with no windows and doors.

The dog was actually locked inside the bathroom by the suspect as the house was being ransacked.