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ransacked

[ UK /ɹˈænsækt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹænˌsækt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
    the robbers left the looted train
    people returned to the plundered village

How To Use ransacked In A Sentence

  • After posting a "sunny, bright, cozy loft" on the rental marketplace, the woman, who uses the pseudonym EJ, returned to find the apartment ransacked by a renter using the name "DJ Pattrson. ABC News: Top Stories
  • Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at.
  • The gangs sold their booty, families tried to earn money from their belongings and neighbours ransacked the homes of anyone who had not returned from prison. Times, Sunday Times
  • York war veteran Joe Munday today spoke of his anger towards thieves who ransacked his house and stole his prized medals.
  • The crooks prised out the kitchen window and ransacked the house. The Sun
  • They tied her to a chair in the nursery and then ransacked her house looking for cash and valuables. The Sun
  • He allegedly then ransacked the house, stole a gun from a safe, and fled in the homeowner's vehicle.
  • A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
  • I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
  • Thieves had ransacked class seven, stealing exercise books belonging to Year Five children age 10.
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