Sentence examples for were plunder from inspiring English sources
verb
To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
- The mercenaries plundered the small town.
Other films from 1953 were Plunder of the Sun, an adventure featuring Glenn Ford as an insurance adjuster unwittingly involved in antiquities smuggling, and Botany Bay, in which Ladd portrayed a medical student who is wrongly convicted of robbery and sent to Australia on a convict ship.
The colleges were plundered.
They were plundered indiscriminately particularly by a Louisiana brigade.
Iraqi museums were plundered after the 1991 gulf war.
All three pyramids were plundered both internally and externally in ancient and medieval times.
Even blacks were plundered of their blankets, chickens, corn meal and garments.
More than 700 Brooklyn stores were plundered; 1,088 people were arrested.
Natural resources - cotton, sugar, teak, rubber, minerals - were plundered in gigantic quantities.
An estimated 15,000 treasures were plundered in April 2003 and only 4,000 had been recovered, he said.
But after the American invasion, the bricks were plundered and sold by kids in the street.
Um Kamal, a homemaker, said her house and a relative's were plundered while they were away.
