Sentence examples for the pillaging from inspiring English sources

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the pillaging

verb

To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

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Who's doing the pillaging?

"Well, somebody's doing the pillaging!" the Donald exclaimed.

He called the pillaging of Britain's embassy and a residential compound on Nov. 30 "unlawful actions".

The pillaging infuriated Iraqis who complained that American troops here did little to stop it.

But the pillaging of Jam is a recent, post-Taliban phenomenon.

Experts told the cultural advisory committee that the pillaging of Italy's archaeological treasures was continuing.

Mr. Hartley writes with powerful detail of the pillaging of Mogadishu by the anti-Barre rebels.

In the wars between the successors of Alexander, Mesopotamia suffered much from the passage and the pillaging of armies.

He was to fill the role that Ed Reed filled for Ryan in Baltimore — that of the pillaging free safety.

Who's doing the pillaging?" Many of the people nodded; somebody was indeed doing the pillaging, and it made sense to them that it could be the People to the South.

The Greek prisoners drafted by Phraates into his army participated in the pillaging, and Phraates lost his life fighting them.

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