Sentence examples for plunder it from inspiring English sources
Gatiss recognises that Wells was writing an allegory of imperialism: Bedford seeks to colonise the moon and plunder it for its vast deposits of gold, while Cavor, a naive man of science, seeks only knowledge.
Other teams come in and they plunder it these days.
Countries are lining up their military fleets to plunder it.
So far, the policy-makers' response has been to gut the welfare state before the greedy geezers can plunder it.
They can't really be called historical fiction because they don't serve history so much as plunder it to invent what might have been.
But instead of doing all in his power to have the crash site secured, he stands by as pro-Russian militiamen plunder it and destroy evidence.
On the contrary we have plundered it of its wealth of minerals and oils, polluted its streams and even the very air we depend on for the very breath of our lives – and we've done this with our eyes wide open and with the knowledge that we were doing it!
For a fortnight they occupied the city and systematically plundered it, carrying off many valuable works of art.
We are dealing with a mafia gang that has taken over the country and is plundering it.
The opening goal always stood to be decisive and, from a Dortmund point of view, Arsenal plundered it with indecent haste.
In 223, however, Cleomenes III of Sparta plundered it, and with the coming of Rome in 146, the city declined rapidly; in the 2nd century ce the Greek traveler Pausanias noted that it was a heap of ruins.
