Sentence examples for pillaged for from inspiring English sources

Regional newspapers are ordered, scoured and pillaged for local references.

The city, pillaged for centuries, then left for dead, had few such treasures left.

A good deal of his art involved worldly theft, which wounded the real-life models he pillaged for his characters.

They breached the crude stone wall there and pillaged for two weeks, killing and capturing thousands of Chinese.

The city was taken and pillaged for three days, thus putting an end to an era of Western history (August 410).

China has passed legislation in recent years to protect the Great Wall, large sections of which have been bulldozed, pillaged for building materials or heavily restored and commercialised.

Avatar is set on the moon of Pandora, an alien planet which mankind is pillaging for natural resources.

As a vegan digital nomad constantly in search of a cafe with a decent wifi connection, a good cup of joe, and a nearby dumpster you can pillage for lunch, navigating the city streets every day can be daunting.

Godfrey was the first to take the oath, and almost all the other leaders followed him, although they did so only after warfare had almost broken out in the city between the citizens and the crusaders, who were eager to pillage for supplies.

That clearly seems to be dodging the definition of "orphan" a little, but those in charge couldn't care less about stuff like definitions or, say, morality, because the more children in their care, the more donations they receive to pillage for their own ends.

The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.