Sentence examples for can be ransacked from inspiring English sources

Our browsing histories and hard drives can be ransacked.

The good virtues of sports are worth hanging on to, especially when they can so easily be ransacked in the rush to worship heroes.

We admit Leading Off has been a bit like the United States soccer team lately -- disappearing for critical stretches of the World Cup -- although we can blame being ransacked by live morning sports events, which is not such a handy excuse for a soccer team.

Books that take you places, and books you can steal from — like Norman Maclean's memoir, "A River Runs Through It," whose opening sentence (about religion and fly-fishing) has been ransacked for the benefit of that first paragraph.

"The house is ransacked.

Their houses were ransacked.

Shops were ransacked, shelves emptied.

Several polling stations were ransacked.

Houses were ransacked.

Her brain had been ransacked.

"The bedroom had been ransacked.