Sentence examples for looted to from inspiring English sources

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TIMBUKTU, Mali Zahbyby Ould Ibrahim's general store was looted to the studs this week.

Monuments are targeted, damaged or looted to fuel illicit trafficking and finance criminal activities.

"In one case, we see New York's state pension fund looted to reward a political boss with hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper payments".

Within days the predictable wrangling and complaints grew shrill: no co-ordination, little equipment such as searchlights or lifting gear, slow relief supplies, supermarkets looted to get hold of some.

Mr. Mohamed and his two workers — both of whom are Zimbabwean refugees — had been chased from the township, and their shop looted to the walls, a little over a month earlier.

The Phocians retaliated by seizing Delphi, which they looted to finance mercenaries for an invasion of Boeotia and Thessaly; they were driven out of Delphi by Philip II of Macedon, who split their towns into villages and exacted an indemnity (346).

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Iraqis, say relief workers, are looting to live.

When Van Cleave reached the apex of one world, there were always other characters to create and more loot to amass.

Bill and Hill took enough loot to fill a small hotel and liberated enough criminals to populate a new Australia.

And in perhaps a startling admission for a law enforcement officer, he added: "Looting, to me, is acceptable if you're looting for your baby or your family".

"We loot to stay alive," he said.

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