How To Use Plundered In A Sentence
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On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
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For far too long they've plundered the pockets of the citizens of this country and treated us with utter disrespect.
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Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
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After the president fled the country, the palace was plundered by soldiers.
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This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
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The inn is actually a front for illegal operations involving the luring of ships onto the coastal rocks where the crews are murdered and the ships' cargoes can be plundered.
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The problem was that nobody got close to him at any time as the Brazilian plundered a hat-trick over two legs.
The Sun
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The problem was that nobody got close to him at any time as the Brazilian plundered a hat-trick over two legs.
The Sun
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A silly thing to say given that the champions have plundered 88 goals in 37 league matches this term?
Times, Sunday Times
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There would have been a certain sporting symmetry if he had plundered more goals last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is now common knowledge that thousands of crores worth of sandalwood is being plundered from our forests every year.
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After the island came a long beach stroll; oystercatchers plundered the mussel beds and crows feasted on small crabs.
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However monkey, chimpanzee and many other rare and endangered species are plundered from the forest and killed for food.
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There would have been a certain sporting symmetry if he had plundered more goals last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence the relative attraction of a centrally-planned, lowest common denominator mediocracy with just enough capitalism to be plundered and wasted on their ever failing social engineering schemes and flawed political theories.
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In the past, veggies in shorefront gardens have been plundered by raiding parties from visiting yachts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Justice found no effectual means at his disposal for coping with what he very aptly calls the enslaved condition of Londoners, assaulted, pillaged, and plundered; unable to sleep in their own houses, or to walk the streets, or to travel in safety.
Henry Fielding: a Memoir
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Catalan plundered the first try after 50 seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
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In 1585 he travelled to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he sacked and plundered Spanish cities.
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That says much on a day when Ireland plundered four of the six races.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since her disappearance, her bank accounts have been plundered, with illegal transactions worth thousands of pounds made in her name.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this project went unrealized, and after Caesar's assassination he was proscribed by Mark Antony: his library at Casinum was plundered, but he escaped to live the rest of his life in scholarly retirement.
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people returned to the plundered village
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Our politicians have plundered the system for so long, corruption is part of life.
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My other debts are to the authors of books from which I have freely plundered their best (I hope) ideas.
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After the president fled the country, the palace was plundered by soldiers.
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The Cure Hill side relentlessly plundered the runs, aided by some very ragged fielding.
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The Eastern and Western Atlantic stocks of bluefin tuna have been so severely plundered that they were proposed for listing as an endangered species in 2009 - a designation strongly opposed by Japan, which consumes around 80 percent of the bluefin caught in the world.
Corbin Hiar: Why Did One Japanese Blufin Tuna Sell for $736,000
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Not less reminiscent of many bygone ages are the ornamentation and decorative details; and in the rooms, statuary plundered from the Greek islands or brought by the
Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands
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This would be the signal for the withdrawal of the archducal protection from the pirates, who then, exposed to the vengeance of all whom they had plundered, must inevitably succumb in the unequal conflict that would ensue.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
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The Bible was plundered for yet more laughs in films like Evan Almighty, The God Complex, Year One and perhaps most rumbustiously of all, The Real Old Testament.
Film | guardian.co.uk
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A penalty point in his favour ended his bad spell and he plundered seven points in a row.
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They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster.
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Members of the 19 families whose dead relatives' estates were plundered by a disgraced solicitor have greeted his imprisonment with quiet satisfaction.
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He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence.
The Sun
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He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence.
The Sun
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He was plundered by George Rogers Clark in 1782 and had to flee for his life, perhaps losing nearly everything.
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Beyond the diaspora, it has also found fans among directors and impresarios like Baz Luhrmann and Andrew Lloyd Weber, who have plundered signature elements to revitalise their own work.
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Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery.
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The plot may have been plundered on countless occasions by playwrights, film-makers and novelists, but nevertheless its emotional impact still packs a powerful punch.
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Our politicians have plundered the system for so long, corruption is so much part of life.
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“I was plundered of every stiver when they took me — it shall avail thee much.”
Quentin Durward
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A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.
A Christmas Carol
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There were several parallels between the two innings, the most notable being that both sides had Australian openers who plundered centuries and the first three batsmen in both teams were left-handers.
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No garage sale was left unplundered as they grifted their way across the country each summer, while we kids stayed down in the Pine Barrens with Grandad.
White Cat
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More than 40 countries are currently searching their national collections for plundered treasures.
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His artistic legacy was immense and it is hard to appreciate his originality because his inventions have been plundered by generations of artists.
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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After stealing their hearts, she allegedly plundered their bank accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Super powers plundered all kinds of commodities at low prices from a satellite country.
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Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
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After stealing their hearts, she allegedly plundered their bank accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the Lord did not choose that the champan should be lost; for the Camucones did not break it up, as is their wont, but abandoned it after having plundered its articles of value -- which were considerable, and which caused great loss to the province.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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A silly thing to say given that the champions have plundered 88 goals in 37 league matches this term?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a popular novel must be plundered for source material for other media.
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He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence.
The Sun
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Scotland. 28 He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
Waverley
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Since her disappearance, her bank accounts have been plundered, with illegal transactions worth thousands of pounds made in her name.
Times, Sunday Times
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Catalan plundered the first try after 50 seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will also mean Greek banks can replenish reserves that have been plundered in recent weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Super powers plundered all kinds of commodities at low prices from a satellite country.
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Reply to this kimberley ondo it is sad that this man has died and left his country with a legacy of poverty and misery that could have been aleviated by the wealth that he plundered from the earth, assisted by the French, who at best, thier only redeeming quality, is thier ability to organise wholesale theft from Gabon and to find places for President bongo to stash his stolen riches and aid and abet him in the misery of the people of Gabon.
Global Voices in English » Gabon: On President Omar Bongo’s death
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The islands and sheltered bays provided ideal hiding places for the pirate galleys that plundered passing ships.
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That says much on a day when Ireland plundered four of the six races.
Times, Sunday Times
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Enterprising traders sailed its coast for centuries, and colonizers plundered its wealth, both material and human.
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Meantime the Crusaders plundered the city of every scrap of wealth.
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The man said he went into a village Chinese troops had retreated from and plundered goods and money.
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It will also mean Greek banks can replenish reserves that have been plundered in recent weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ‘shopaholic’ headmistress collapsed after being found guilty of living the high life with up to £500,000 plundered from her school.
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Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives.
Slashfood
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Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been plundered from her account since she vanished.
The Sun
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Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been plundered from her account since she vanished.
The Sun
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Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been plundered from her account since she vanished.
The Sun
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The area once rich with red sanders, sandalwood and teak trees, deer, boars, wild sheep and tigers, was widely plundered before it was declared a reserve forest.
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Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been plundered from her account since she vanished.
The Sun
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Spanish Merchant Ship, she not being carried _intra praesidia_, [5] but only plundered and let go.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
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Catalan plundered the first try after 50 seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Richmond run machine Ben Griffiths plundered 184 runs to help his side to a thumping 117 run victory over Barnes on Saturday in Middlesex League Division One.
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And, to say nothing of the stains and disgraces of his youth, what other remarkable event is there in his questorship, that first step to honor, except that Cnæus Carbo was robbed by his questor of the public money? that the consul was plundered and betrayed? his army deserted? his province abandoned? the holy nature and obligations imposed on him by lot violated?
I. The First Oration Against Verres
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He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his meal-ark, and with two barrels, one of single, and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
The Waverley
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They provided the Indians with guns and ammunition, and in return often received goods plundered from the Americans; and they at least indirectly and in some cases directly encouraged the savages in their warfare against the settlers.
The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
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The imperialists plundered many valuable works of art.
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In his first six Championship innings, for example, he plundered a century and three half-centuries while his batting in knockout cricket has been quite fantastic.
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The cellar has been plundered and the family silver has mysteriously disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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The area once rich with red sanders, sandalwood and teak trees, deer, boars, wild sheep and tigers, was widely plundered before it was declared a reserve forest.
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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In fact, in a span of less than a decade, Barbary Coast corsairs plundered nearly 500 merchant vessels, commandeering the ships and selling the crews and passengers into slavery.
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Since then desultory efforts have been made to secure the return of this plundered piece of history.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the president fled the country, the palace was plundered by soldiers.
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After stealing their hearts, she allegedly plundered their bank accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
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A trusted member of an angling club, who systematically plundered £13,000 from funds he was supposed to look after, has been jailed for six months.
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The rich provinces of Asia Minor were plundered by the invaders.
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When it was over, the victors triumphantly plundered the goods of their fallen foe, collecting the weapons and trinkets from the bodies of the fallen.
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Unfortunately, within ten minutes of the second half the hosts breached the Acomb defence twice before Acomb plundered a consolation reply a minute before time.
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However, the early Western commerce with China was mainly directed to the opium trade, which not only plundered China's raw materials and local products but ruined the health of Chinese.
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He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
Waverley
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There would have been a certain sporting symmetry if he had plundered more goals last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the stone of the wall has today been plundered for the building of farmhouses, outbuildings and churches.
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They plundered all the valuable things they could find.
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Despite martial law, the troops had plundered many of the refugees' abandoned houses.
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She told police a former family friend stole cheques and plundered her account.
The Sun
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The soldiers plundered the village.
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In the name of bringing civilisation and Christianity, knights burnt and plundered towns and cities across the Middle East and North Africa.
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Zaire, as the Congo was rechristened, had its natural resources plundered to fund his passion for flashy cars and chartered Concorde flights - this at a time when the country's average annual income was below $120.
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During this time churches had been plundered, pious fraternities dissolved, new monastic vows forbidden, and many religious houses closed down.
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Greeks had plundered Turkish towns, and now they were repaid by being pushed out of Turkey altogether.
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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A silly thing to say given that the champions have plundered 88 goals in 37 league matches this term?
Times, Sunday Times
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They have not lost in their last six away trips and have plundered 30 goals.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, and without overt religious logic, the regime plundered the church, taxing the seculars heavily while abolishing the regular orders entirely and confiscating their wealth.
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I suppose the idea that wealth can be created instead of plundered is completely alien to you.
Sound Politics: Global Warming Update
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I took my own kids to see it, ready to have my emotions plundered and, sure enough, before it was halfway through, tears were coursing down my cheeks, much to the disgust of the gimlet-eyed gang along the row.
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After the president fled the country, the palace was plundered by soldiers.
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A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck.
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How can a mahogany desk, made of slow-growing hard wood plundered from the Amazon, be eco-friendly?
Life After Desk: Don’t Toss that Tropical Hardwood
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After six years of war, the country suffered from hyperinflation, food shortages, ill-clothed soldiers, and a plundered citizenry.
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Let all those who plundered money in the name of running banks give loans to those economically backward people.
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The problem was that nobody got close to him at any time as the Brazilian plundered a hat-trick over two legs.
The Sun
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It originally referred to someone who deliberately caused shipwrecks by using false beacons to lure ships onto rocks, or someone who plundered goods from wrecked ships.
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Our view of the Vikings is bloodthirsty men who raped, pillaged and plundered.
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And he certainly was here as he plundered his 10th goal this term to put the skids under Wigan.
The Sun
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He avoided marriage and friendship; namely, he was neither plundered nor cornuted.
Paul Clifford — Complete
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It was, however, a highly popular book throughout the 17th century, and its plot material was frequently plundered by dramatists.
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On the float were placed [the sacred things] which the Mindanaos had plundered: on each slope lay the chasuble, choristers 'mantles, frontals, and other sacred ornaments; on the ridge stood the chalices, monstrances and patens; and at the edge were hung the chrismatories and small bells.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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Otherwise, 'if fish are left unowned they will be plundered to extinction'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Farms were plundered and German settlements beleaguered.
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For thousands of years you violated and plundered the Earth by greed, for power and money.
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The cellar has been plundered and the family silver has mysteriously disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were calling on the Government to replace millions of pounds, plundered by Maxwell from pension funds.
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Catalan plundered the first try after 50 seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rich provinces of Asia Minor were plundered by the invaders.
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Over the past few weeks clergymen and parochial staff have been terrorised by youngsters and church buildings plundered by thieves.
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And he certainly was here as he plundered his 10th goal this term to put the skids under Wigan.
The Sun
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The flood has reached its climax and after the destruction, terror, murder, and sacrilege practiced by the aggressive, terrorist, and criminal Zionist entity, together with its tyrannical ally, the U.S., have come to a head against our brothers and our faithful struggling people in plundered Palestine.
Tales of the Tyrant
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They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster.
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The imperialists plundered many valuable works of art.
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This writer plundered from famous authors
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He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence.
The Sun
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Over the next three months he systematically plundered the place, keeping the Dutch flag flying to lure more ships into harbour.
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Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery.
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His mouth plundered hers, brushing her lips, forcing entry with his tongue, demanding, demanding all the while.
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The assembled in arms at the foot of the Capitol; sallied from the gates, plundered or burnt the harvests of their neighbors, engaged in tumultuary conflict, and returned home after an expedition of fifteen or twenty days.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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On entering the town the Mongols plundered the town and massacred its citizens.
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Not only are the houses shoddily built with some of the walls on the brink of collapsing, but the unoccupied houses are being plundered by vandals who steal the doors, windows and other fittings.
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They have not lost in their last six away trips and have plundered 30 goals.
The Sun
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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They plundered 125 before Pollard was bowled for a fine 72.
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For far too long they've plundered the pockets of the citizens of this country and treated us with utter disrespect.
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The imperialists plundered many valuable works of art.
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They have not lost in their last six away trips and have plundered 30 goals.
The Sun
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Since her disappearance, her bank accounts have been plundered, with illegal transactions worth thousands of pounds made in her name.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Saint Augustine, the monk who sought knowledge in the Greek or Latin authors was no better than the Israelite who plundered Egyptian treasures in order to build the tabernacle of God.
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And he certainly was here as he plundered his 10th goal this term to put the skids under Wigan.
The Sun
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And the masters themselves invariably plundered from successful works that had come before.
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They have not lost in their last six away trips and have plundered 30 goals.
The Sun
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Cavaliers fought street by street and plundered the town.
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And he certainly was here as he plundered his 10th goal this term to put the skids under Wigan.
The Sun
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There would have been a certain sporting symmetry if he had plundered more goals last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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She told police a former family friend stole cheques and plundered her account.
The Sun
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The splendid church, the tombs, and even the very family of Scrope, have disappeared; but across the hills, in the valley of the Ure, their castle still stands, and in the little church of Wensley there can still be seen the parclose screen of Perpendicular date that one of the Scropes must have rescued when the monastery was being stripped and plundered.
Yorkshire
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The goods were plundered from European lodges.
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The raiders plundered all the cattle.
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That says much on a day when Ireland plundered four of the six races.
Times, Sunday Times
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That says much on a day when Ireland plundered four of the six races.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
Waverley — Complete
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Expensive hair products, made popular by TV series The Salon, have been plundered in smash-and-grab raids on hairdressers' shops in Bradford.
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In eight percent of the cases, the culprits plundered the victim's bank accounts.
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The problem was that nobody got close to him at any time as the Brazilian plundered a hat-trick over two legs.
The Sun
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You know, how Spain of that era sent troops to the New World, plundered the land of gold, destroyed the Aztek and Myan people in wars and planted deceases. 50,000 tons of gold was sent back to decorate Spanish churches, finance the military, and decades of decadent life.
Financial Terrorism
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A silly thing to say given that the champions have plundered 88 goals in 37 league matches this term?
Times, Sunday Times
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Since then desultory efforts have been made to secure the return of this plundered piece of history.
Times, Sunday Times
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He and four staff members were locked in the vault as the gang plundered more than £200,000.
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Thirteen months earlier he had threatened the York City Art Gallery's terrified attendants at gunpoint and plundered the city of some of its most precious treasures.
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The war also brought the dangers of chronic malnutrition as armies plundered local food reserves, leaving families more exposed to infection and less able to fight it.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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After stealing their hearts, she allegedly plundered their bank accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its treasures must be plundered and used to fund literacy programmes and childcare.
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Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
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So yet another great album was destined to fade into oblivion, before being picked up on by a few musos, plundered for sounds and style, hailed in retrospect as a classic and finally reissued on CD.
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She told police a former family friend stole cheques and plundered her account.
The Sun
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They trussed up the guards before they plundered the bank.
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What if those Fascist Romans had not raped, pillaged and plundered the Ancient Britons?
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Since her disappearance, her bank accounts have been plundered, with illegal transactions worth thousands of pounds made in her name.
Times, Sunday Times
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One old man, probably the leader of a village plundered by the bandits, stepped forward.
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On our part La Hire and Xaintrailles plundered, for their own hand, the lands of the Duke of Burgundy, and indeed on every side there was no fair fighting, such as the Maid loved, but a war of wastry, the peasants pillaged, and the poor held to ransom.
A Monk of Fife
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The invaders plundered food and valuables from coastal towns and villages.
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His left-wing militias also plundered small farmers in the nation's countryside and hinterland provinces.
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And it is costing the company another ￡16 million to repair the damage to the 1,000 kiosks plundered.
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And the new Justice found no effectual means at his disposal for coping with what he very aptly calls the enslaved condition of Londoners, assaulted, pillaged, and plundered; unable to sleep in their own houses, or to walk the streets, or to travel in safety.
Henry Fielding A Memoir
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She told police a former family friend stole cheques and plundered her account.
The Sun
