Sentence examples for were plundering 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.
In 1992, President George H. W. Bush sent troops into Somalia to protect relief shipments that the militiamen were plundering.
Now the newest rich were plundering the old neighborhoods near the town center and laying waste to the old stores.
No, this is not President Bush versus Saddam Hussein, but Thomas Jefferson versus the Barbary pirates of North Africa, who were plundering Western ships and enslaving their crews.
But by the early eighties young Americans were plundering his inventions to feed the resurgence in painting that was known as Neo-Expressionism.
While they were plundering the house they insulted Mrs. DeLancey, who ran out into the night and hid under the stoop until the raiders left the house.
By about 1280 the Turks were plundering the fertile valleys of western Anatolia, cutting communications between the Greek cities, and their emirs were beginning to carve out small principalities.
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.
