Sentence examples for raiding from inspiring English sources

The word "raiding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of taking or searching something by force, such as in the sentence, "The soldiers were accused of raiding the village for supplies."

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raiding

verb

Present participle of raid

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The police were raiding our offices and had arrested the accountant.

"Raiding the premises of a legal representative of Timor-Leste and taking such aggressive action against a key witness is unconscionable and unacceptable conduct.

"If they lose men at the front, they come raiding our villages and snatching men in retaliation," said a terrified Sunni farmer who lived nearby.

Many, like Kanabygal, were victims of frontier violence between tribesmen – defending traditional lands on the pastoral frontier – and colonial troops, paramilitary police forces, settler militia and raiding parties.

In 1980 Satyarthi founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) and began raiding factories, brick kilns and carpet-making workshops where children and their indebted parents often pledge themselves to work for decades in return for a short-term loan.

It has stayed afloat only by resorting to a series of increasingly desperate measures, from raiding the coffers of municipalities to delaying payments to suppliers.

Since privatisation proceeds could contribute no more than €1.4 billion, the lion's share, of €5.8 billion, would have to come from raiding the only source of ready cash, bank deposits in Cyprus, worth €68 billion at the end of January.

But no sooner had the ink on that agreement dried than the French stock exchange was raiding its offices as part of a probe into the group's financial disclosures since January 2001.

One especially damaging practice was "mowing the lawn"—raiding areas repeatedly to clear out insurgents without holding the ground, exposing anyone friendly to the British to grisly retribution.

Then the government admitted it would only hit its closely watched target for the primary fiscal surplus of 3.1% of GDP by omitting some infrastructure spending from the sums, bringing forward dividends from state-owned firms and raiding the sovereign wealth-fund it set up in 2008.

Ms Fernández might be tempted to make up the shortfall by raiding pension funds.

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