Sentence examples for pillage it from inspiring English sources
Ibrahim sent an envoy to Mani demanding its surrender or else he would pillage it.
Nevertheless, the story of Realogy shows how private equity firms can use financial wizardry to save a company, not pillage it.
Or pillage it: "Where there is money, there is funny," says Abdiwahid Hersi, the director of Puntland fisheries.Take the spiny lobster.
In the Al Gore vision, the people of the world are freed from the chains of an oil based economy, the genius of America is mobilized for a new deal of new and safe energy sources, and the earth is protected from the rapacious greed who those who pillage it for short term profits, and threaten it for future generations.
My reading was now primarily a means of thought protection, for once war gets inside your mind it burns and pillages it.
European explorers rediscovered the place in the 19th and early 20th centuries and pillaged it, carrying off thousands of manuscripts and paintings stored in the so-called Library Cave.
It was precipitated by an incident that took place in 1738 when Captain Robert Jenkins appeared before a committee of the House of Commons and exhibited what he alleged to be his own amputated ear, cut off in April 1731 in the West Indies by Spanish coast guards, who had boarded his ship, pillaged it, and then set it adrift.
The Turks moved very quickly through the land while pillaging it, giving Báthory little time to gather his militia at Sibiu.
Simào continued to defy local Chinese laws at Ningbo, and when his men were cheated on a trade deal with a Chinese man in 1545, Simão sent a band of armed men into the town, pillaged it, and took local women and young girls as their captives.
But Sierra Leone is no longer suffering the massacres, amputations, rapes and pillage that it endured just a year ago.
He accepted the unlikeliness of the proposition: retro culture, happy to pillage anything it can be affectionately ironic about, could not cope with that period's seriousness, let alone its sheer eclecticism.
