Sentence examples for it ransacked from inspiring English sources

His eyes were sad when he looked at me, like the eyes of a toymaker who has opened his shop to find it ransacked of toys and tools.

A local woman — she identified herself in a blog post on her experience only as EJ — rented out her apartment via the site and came home to find it ransacked and her jewelry and electronics missing.

In the final episode there's an utterly devastating moment where Tom and Barbara come back to their house to find it ransacked by burglars.

On Friday, August 4, 1944, the day of the arrest, Miep Gies climbed the stairs to the hiding place and found it ransacked and wrecked.

One month later, researchers from Human Rights Watch visited Tawerga and found it "abandoned — some of it ransacked and burned — and Misurata brigade commanders say the residents of Tawerga should never return".

When the Athenians were on their way down to the haven of Piraeus, the shield with the head of Medusa was missing; and be, under the pretext of searching for it, ransacked all places, and found among their goods considerable sums of money concealed, which he applied to the public use; and with this the soldiers and seamen were well provided for their voyage.

Three months ago Disney's plans to reboot its venerable animations as live-action films was under the spotlight; now it is the turn of fellow Hollywood studio Paramount to flex its muscles as it ransacks its archive for recyclable properties.

Donny George, the research director of Iraq's National Museum, described 20 extraordinarily important items that are missing from its collection after it was ransacked as American troops moved into the city earlier this month.

Already, San Salvador's Baptist Church has suspended a literacy program, and a Los Angeles-based medical aid organization has closed its office after it was ransacked by soldiers.

London closed its Tehran embassy after it was ransacked by a mob, in 2011.

The Syrian Embassy in Cairo has been vacant since it was ransacked by a largely Syrian crowd two weeks ago, leaving it battered and burned.