Sentence examples for he ransacked from inspiring English sources

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He ransacked the apartment.

After instrumentalising Proust, he ransacked philosophy for soothing thoughts.

He said he ransacked white-owned farms, beat white farmers and stood by laughing as his superiors raped women.

He ransacked the texts for any fleeting corollary to Shakespeare's life and times, an approach that Shapiro equates with having "carelessly left open a fire door".

He became, in his mind, Christ, Hitler, Napoleon, Dante, Milton, Alexander, John the Baptist, and many others; he ransacked his house for ancient treasure.

The Centre Court had plenty of reasons to believe that Federer would find a way to check his tailspin but the more he ransacked his memory for the best of his game the more it seemed that he had surrendered, fatally, the vital momentum.

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He ransacks the store and scatters its contents.

He ransacks a room, steals a consignment of cocaine, paints their hair and faces as they sleep.

The way he ransacks the apartment for every last bit of weed doesn't suggest a man who is facing his problems head-on.

He ransacks his house, looking for years of birthday money that his mother has hidden lest he make an irrational choice with it.

Still, what I admire most in his work is the way small acts of recollection are embedded in the big style, as when he ransacks his memory for the "apparitions" of hitchhikers "summoned from the nude buckwheat / with blatant inaccuracy".

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