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How to use despoil in a sentence

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If you despoil a whole town, if you wreck the environment for thousands of people, somebody's going to describe you as an entrepreneurial genius.
Barry is torn between kicking out the man who is about to despoil his daughter and taking his much needed rent money.
That is what you would expect a greedy oil firm to do: despoil the ocean just to save a lousy few million dollars.
Taxes also take away money that has been honestly gained and they despoil taxpayers of the fruit of their toil.
We need to think about what greenhouse gas restrictions we should be adopting so as to keep the Arctic intact and not despoil it.
This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
The Union and the Member States should construct new relations with the South, not despoil it.
The impression is left that this project would despoil a virginal natural landscape.
They can more readily employ women and are less likely to despoil the environment.
For a long time, drastic foreign exchange controls have allowed many states to despoil capital.
Together with their messy tangle of wires they further despoil the view through The Village already made unsightly by the telecom company's previous assaults.
Strong feelings against the despoilers can despoil.
Even though some occupations of land by groups of poor farmers are violent, that only represents a small fraction of the violence that was imposed on them in order to despoil them.
Exploitation is therefore left in the hands of organised groups whose rapacity and desire to despoil the continent as fast as possible leads them to create the complex situations within the states of which we are all aware.
Poor countries expect major financial assistance, both to help them adapt to the effects of climate change and to enable them to pursue economic development in ways that do not despoil the environment.
The construction of a logging road and the fear that loggers and, later, miners would despoil the area led to the construction of houses by some of the local Subanon during the 1980s to guard their lands and sacred places.
The WCL has pointed out that two major activities that despoil the environment are extracting natural resources, particularly minerals, and intensive agriculture for export.
He did not despoil the city since it survived his reign.
In Russia and Ukraine, much of the damage was already done by agricultural collectivisation, which left no real viable independent small-scale agriculture to despoil and destroy.
Freelance divers, seeking salvage rather than knowledge, despoil them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I shall be that poet, Madame, if I can despoil myself of reason and of conceit.
If I despoil the bulls of their skins, you are not too proud to despoil one of the husbands of the widow.
Euphorbus, attempting to despoil Patroclus of his armour, is slain by Menelaus.
For many years the castle was left at the mercy of all who cared to despoil it.
But not for himself did Meleager despoil the body of his foe.
One there was, Mustapha Mirza, a Persian, who came hither to despoil me.
I have no purpose to despoil your dear family, nor to ruin your servants.
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