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looting

[ UK /lˈuːtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫutɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. plundering during riots or in wartime

How To Use looting In A Sentence

  • The English were looting the Spanish, transforming the cash gained by selling off their medieval patrimony, and the coal hewn from their provinces, into a truly extraordinary epoch in human culture.
  • Foul-mouthed mobs roved around the dark Edinburgh streets, looting and vandalising premises owned by Italians.
  • The worst of the looting was over, and there was enough calm in the shattered streets for her to feel the popular elation, despite the fear and violence that lay below the surface.
  • And then there was CityTime, the gargantuan $700 million looting of the city treasury by sticky-fingered outside consultants hired to build an automated payroll system. Dan Collins: Mayor Bloomberg's Handling of Stephen Goldsmith Firing Not the Problem
  • All of these flaws came to a head during the week of rioting and looting, when rolling news media overdosed on graphic but often misleading imagery, politicians over-reacted and the rightwing print media went apeshit. Has Newsnight lost its way?
  • Viviana has been shocked by her country's bankruptcy, devaluation, rocketing inflation and unemployment, all combined with a bout of rioting, looting and street violence.
  • U.S. forces have cited armed resistance from inside the complex as the main reason they could not seal off the museum and prevent the looting.
  • The chatterers who argued two weeks ago that the war was turning into a quagmire have found a new cause for feigned despair: looting.
  • In reality Lavrushka, having got drunk the day before and left his master dinnerless, had been whipped and sent to the village in quest of chickens, where he engaged in looting till the French took him prisoner. War and Peace
  • Across the country, resource-rich provinces are also home to looting, illegal logging and mining activities.
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