Sentence examples for are ransacked from inspiring English sources

The houses often have ammunition or weapons in them, he said, and often are ransacked and burned.

"The Longest Yard," "The Dirty Dozen" and all 30 installments of "Major League" are ransacked for "The Replacements".

The surge of Islamic extremism has made stereotyping and profiling worse, Mohamud said: "You are ransacked" during body checks.

In contrast to the present, when the National Guard and the Reserves are ransacked for replacements for Iraq, both institutions were safe havens during the Vietnam era.

"The forests are ransacked for the brightest foliage, branches of the pine, cedar, and holly are laboriously collected," he noted approvingly, "and the work of beautifying the quarters continue[s] as long as material can be procured".

By some estimates, as many as half of all foreclosed properties are ransacked by either the former owners or vandals, which depresses the value of the property further and pulls down the value of neighboring homes.

Up to 80% of New Orleans is still underwater and looters are ransacking the city.

"The house is ransacked.

Their houses were ransacked.

Shops were ransacked, shelves emptied.

Several polling stations were ransacked.