Sentence examples for being pillaged from inspiring English sources
"In military terms, we are being pillaged".
Some of the sites are being pillaged in a very intensive way.
Another provision requires the protection of Congo's natural resources, which by most accounts are being pillaged by all sides.
The so-called Latin invaders of 1202 looted Byzantium in the name of religion; today the city is being pillaged in the name of progress and profit.
But Mr. Tahi also acknowledged that the international hunt for loot has been focused almost exclusively on the antiquities from the National Museum and from sites around Iraq that are being pillaged today.
"We are talking about the areas that were part of the cradle of civilisation being pillaged, artefacts going back thousands of years that should be studied in museums are instead disappearing on the black market," a British archaeologist told Buzzfeed, while "unheard of" numbers of stolen goods are finding their way into reputable auction houses and sold off.
Vien Chan was pillaged and destroyed.
Iron mines and rubber plantations were pillaged.
The area was pillaged, women were raped, murders committed.
Libraries rich in early prints, books, and manuscripts were pillaged.
