Sentence examples for getting looted from inspiring English sources

"I worry about it getting looted once it gets here".

When the nearby Sears store in Hollywood on Santa Monica Blvd started getting looted and destroyed, surprising to me that it was mostly by immigrants from Central America, the breakdown was clearly escalating.

He said that 15 to 20 percent of losses was what "everyone learned to live with in 1991 and 1992" and that aid workers even coined a term to euphemize the theft — "traditional distribution" — because even though the food was getting looted, it still ended up in local markets, having the ancillary effect of reducing overall food prices and making food more affordable for the poor.

Anticipating a shortage before legal sales even started, distributors had been stockpiling weed — and getting looted.

Multiple liquor stores across West Baltimore got looted, too.

The Piccadilly record shop in Manchester did not get looted, yet that doesn't mean the shop hasn't been hit.

"They might get looted, but do some get absorbed by whatever treasury is still standing?" One of the largest troves ever expropriated belonged to the Shah of Iran, and some 100 vehicles are now displayed in Iran's Historic Auto Museum.

We just got looted.' " At the same time, the mayor was trying to claim a cut of the food from the orphanage, saying he, too, had hungry refugees to feed.

You lot best get there before everything gets looted.'" Disorder was spreading to areas across London such as Lewisham, Catford, Croydon, Queensway, Notting Hill, Kilburn, Barnet, Woolwich, Barking, Balham, Southwark and Camden.

"The shops that got looted would be reluctant to hire young people, especially from ethnic minorities," he says – a deeply worrying trend, given that only 46% of rioters were black.

I hate leaving my house, worrying if it's going to flood or get looted.