pillaging

How To Use pillaging In A Sentence

• Corruption trials for pillaging the state will probably happen.
• During the revolution, when the peasants of all the adjoining estates violently dispossessed their landlords of their property; when every adjoining chateau exhibited a scene of desolation and ruin; the peasants of this estate were remarkable for their moderate and steady conduct; so far from themselves pillaging their seigneur, they formed a league for his defence "-- Ils l'ont soutenùs," as they themselves expressed it -- _and he continued throughout, and is now in the quiet possession of his great estate_. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
• During the first two nights of pillaging the Capital City, over half a million people were killed.
• Dr. Griffin compensated by raping and pillaging other programs to get the money back for Ares. Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
• It bears the scars of various sackings and pillagings - but, mysteriously, much of the building was buried under earth and remained untouched.
• They were easily led to consider the flames that were consuming France, not as a warning to protect their own buildings, (which were without any party-wall, and linked by a contignation into the edifice of France,) but as an happy occasion for pillaging the goods, and for carrying off the materials of their neighbor's house. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
• Notice that they're not only pillaging resources these days, but they're investing.
• No need here to recount the sorry story of Referendum C. If Ref C was a drunk running a tab, pillaging Pinnacol would be a smash-and-grab from the plate glass of the liquor store. Freeze It, Personalize It, Polarize It « View From a Height
• The bandicoot is a species of marsupial animal which could outwit the European fox, and give him lessons in pillaging poultry yards. In Search of the Castaways
• The army was receptive to suggestions from white citizens that blacks should be incarcerated for supposedly pillaging and looting indiscriminately.