ransacking

How To Use ransacking In A Sentence

• I'm here ransacking my closet for something good enough to wear, I can't believe all the trash I've got in here!
• She tidied up again, went back upstairs to finish ransacking the airing cupboard, then got ready for her trip out with Adele. JUST BETWEEN US
• After ransacking his valise, they discover he is French.
• The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house.
• He was already ransacking the still faintly-perfumed dining-room for matches, and had just succeeded in relighting the still-warm lamp, when he heard her quiet step in the porch, even felt her peering in, in the gloom, with all her years 'trickling customariness behind her, a little dubious of knocking on a wide-open door. The Return
• The police spent an hour combing the residence, probing the floor and compound and ransacking the wardrobes.
• Scannadio was, and what strange reports had bene noised of him, not onely for ransacking dead mens graves in the night season, but many other abhominable Villanies committed by him, which so fearfully assaulted him; that his haire stoode on end, every member of him quaked, and every minute he imagined Scannadio rising, with intent to strangle him in the grave. The Decameron
• Ransacking the Internet, I could discover no Perelman parties, no memorial readings from the canon, no revivals of the Broadway shows he worked on, no retrospectives of the films he helped write.
• The unclad working class panorama would slam rusted doors on the Promised Land, ransacking determined belief from our official atheism. Soviet
• They forced their way in, demanded money and snatched a cordless phone from the man's hand before ransacking the house.