Sentence examples for by pillaging from inspiring English sources

He began his campaign by pillaging the countryside and ransoming its people.

The aristocrats appointed to govern the provinces saw their postings chiefly as opportunities to get rich quickly by pillaging their unfortunate subjects.

This was done by pillaging another huge website, Wikipedia, to find out how the names of objects tend to cluster together in the online encyclopedia's articles.

We've inherited this history of terrible things done, that enriched us in the US and Europe by pillaging the former colonies.

LulzSec recently claimed (on flimsy evidence) that it had made Apple "our bitch for life" by pillaging passwords and source code from the iCloud servers built to dispatch photos, music and other data to customers' iPhones, iPads and computers.

The show, whose recent opening coincided with the Chinese New Year (this is the Year of the Monkey), tells of this mischievous hero, who incurred the wrath of the powerful Jade Emperor by pillaging his peach orchard and crashing his dinner party.

The Valyrians built their empire by destroying, pillaging, enslaving and killing.

This is while France, England, Spain, Portugal, these sovereign nations were at war with each other, funding their wars by raping, pillaging, decimating the cultures of South America, stripping them of their wealth, gold.

Republican troops are called "the enemy" at another point, and pillaging by Franco's forces in the cities that they initially invaded are glossed over as "normalizing civilian life".

"It seems to support the view that a significant number of women were involved in the settlement of the smaller isles, which overrules the idea that it just involved raping and pillaging by males going out on a rampage," professor Hagelberg said.

The Rome catacombs then fell victim to pillaging by Germanic invaders around the early 9th Century.