Sentence examples for were pillaged from inspiring English sources
verb
To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
Iron mines and rubber plantations were pillaged.
Vegetation and damp engulfed his building and its materials were pillaged.
In 1860, the palace was ransacked by French and British troops, and the heads were pillaged.
Archaeological sites were pillaged by a population that had been impoverished by war and drought.
The homes and shops of Huguenots were pillaged, and their occupants brutally murdered; many bodies were thrown into the Seine.
The Danubian legions were victorious, and Niger was killed at the end of 194; Antioch and Byzantium were pillaged after a long siege.
Some said German occupiers were pillaging Belgium.
"People were collecting vernacular environments back then," she added, "but mostly were pillaging them.
A 2007 Daily Mail article titled "I h8 txt msgs" had declared that "SMS vandals" were "pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary.
There exist perhaps 100 examples of these refined Song dynasty objects, made around the time Normans were pillaging England, in the world.
After the agreement with Andronikos III in 1329, Michael Shishman started preparations to attack while the Serbs were pillaging the areas around Ohrid.
