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Sentence Examples The Cure Hill side relentlessly plundered the runs, aided by some very ragged fielding. Nathan plundered the large specials board for his queen scallops St Jacques. In eight percent of the cases, the culprits plundered the victim's bank accounts. During this time churches had been plundered, pious fraternities dissolved, new monastic vows forbidden, and many religious houses closed down. It is now common knowledge that thousands of crores worth of sandalwood is being plundered from our forests every year. My other debts are to the authors of books from which I have freely plundered their best ideas. It was, however, a highly popular book throughout the 17th century, and its plot material was frequently plundered by dramatists. And the masters themselves invariably plundered from successful works that had come before. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a popular novel must be plundered for source material for other media. The man said he went into a village Chinese troops had retreated from and plundered goods and money. Enterprising traders sailed its coast for centuries, and colonizers plundered its wealth, both material and human. Greeks had plundered Turkish towns, and now they were repaid by being pushed out of Turkey altogether. One old man, probably the leader of a village plundered by the bandits, stepped forward. In 1585 he travelled to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he sacked and plundered Spanish cities. On entering the town the Mongols plundered the town and massacred its citizens. Despite martial law, the troops had plundered many of the refugees' abandoned houses. He was plundered by George Rogers Clark in 1782 and had to flee for his life, perhaps losing nearly everything. For thousands of years you violated and plundered the Earth by greed, for power and money. His left-wing militias also plundered small farmers in the nation's countryside and hinterland provinces. What if those Fascist Romans had not raped, pillaged and plundered the Ancient Britons? Show More Sentences Our view of the Vikings is bloodthirsty men who raped, pillaged and plundered. More than 40 countries are currently searching their national collections for plundered treasures. After six years of war, the country suffered from hyperinflation, food shortages, ill-clothed soldiers, and a plundered citizenry. Our politicians have plundered the system for so long, corruption is so much part of life. Over the past few weeks clergymen and parochial staff have been terrorised by youngsters and church buildings plundered by thieves. The islands and sheltered bays provided ideal hiding places for the pirate galleys that plundered passing ships. Much of the stone of the wall has today been plundered for the building of farmhouses, outbuildings and churches. In a year that has yet again seen the world of comic books plundered by Hollywood for source material, one film stands alone. Over the next three months, he systematically plundered the place, keeping the Dutch flag flying to lure more ships into harbour. Our politicians have plundered the system for so long, corruption is part of life. However, the Phocaeans had plundered and pillaged the area and the Tyrrhenians and Carthagenians united against them. For far too long they've plundered the pockets of the citizens of this country and treated us with utter disrespect. Let all those who plundered money in the name of running banks give loans to those economically backward people. Vikings from the north, Magyars from the east, and Saracens from the South plundered the continent. There were runs galore at Rawtenstall where the home side lost out to Werneth after the visitors had plundered 307-6 off the home attack. The entire region was plundered in the following centuries by invading Poles, Lithuanians, Swedes, Germans, and most recently Russians. Its treasures must be plundered and used to fund literacy programmes and childcare. The Caribs plundered the Arawak villages, destroying the dwellings, securing the supplies, and killing most of the men. Eighties appropriationists plundered them as exemplary of modernism's failure. On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry. Show More Sentences Expensive hair products, made popular by TV series The Salon, have been plundered in smash-and-grab raids on hairdressers' shops in Bradford. 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. Meantime the Crusaders plundered the city of every scrap of wealth. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The plundered tree is a native mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia. Just another golden treasure hidden somewhere in the great unknown, waiting to be discovered, plundered and protected. 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. Members of the 19 families whose dead relatives' estates were plundered by a disgraced solicitor have greeted his imprisonment with quiet satisfaction. 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. His artistic legacy was immense and it is hard to appreciate his originality because his inventions have been plundered by generations of artists. This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement. 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. In May 1643, Furness was occupied and plundered by a large Royalist force commanded by Richard Viscount Molyneux. Literature has been in a plundered, fragmentary state for a long time. Show More Sentences As Pizarro and his men took over portions of South America, they plundered and enslaved countless people. By 1070, the Normans had already seen successes in their invasion of Wales with Gwent fallen and Deheubarth plundered. The Scots landed at the same time on the west coast, and plundered the population there. In the 12th century the coasts of western Scandinavia were plundered by Curonians and Oeselians from the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Vikings also attacked the coasts of North Africa and Italy and plundered all the coasts of the Baltic Sea. In early 1172, Henry allowed de Lacy to take royal troops into Meath, where they plundered and burned the monastic towns of Fore and Killeigh. Raymond's force occupied an old promontory fort at Baginbun and plundered the surrounding countryside. In 895 the population of Chichester killed many hundreds of Danes who plundered the area. They then raided and plundered the territories of north Leinster, which had refused to submit to Diarmait. The first University of Leuven was closed in 1797 and churches were plundered. The army, mainly consisting of mercenaries, extensively and viciously plundered the surrounding bishopric during the siege. The temple was destroyed by its Spanish invaders who, as they plundered, were determined to rid the city of its wealth, idolaters and shrines. The pirates not only strangled shipping lanes but also plundered many cities on the coasts of Greece and Asia. In 1737, the Maratha general Bajirao of the Maratha Empire invaded and plundered Delhi. Timur entered Delhi and the city was sacked, destroyed, and left in ruins after Timur's army had killed and plundered for three days and nights. On the Angara River in 1701 he met and plundered a merchant's boat loaded with Chinese goods. Diocletian expelled the Persians who plundered Syria and conquered some barbarian tribes with Maximian. From the 9th century, waves of Viking raiders plundered Irish monasteries and towns. In 851 and 879, the city was however attacked and plundered twice by the Vikings. While in office, he plundered a Spanish fort on Tidore, poisoned the sultan of Ternate and committed atrocities against the local population. Show More Sentences The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. In 1096 Boniak attacked Kiev, plundered the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, and burned down the prince's palace in Berestovo. The citizens of London feared the city being plundered and enthusiastically welcomed York's son Edward, Earl of March. Although the Visigoths plundered Rome, they treated its inhabitants humanely and burned only a few buildings. The net began to close in on the double dealer though when Ms Noble realised her bank accounts had been plundered. The dreadlocked destroyer plundered 34 points and Reggie Kirk weighed in with 22 as the Bullets overcame a difficult start. He had lost his electorship and his duchy, which was being plundered by the Emperor's mercenary soldiers. When his grave was plundered in 1995, even the flying wings from his tunic were ripped off. They were poor because they had fought the Romans, and had been defeated and plundered. Under Godigisel's son Gunderic, the Vandals plundered their way westward and southward through Aquitaine. The UK was then to be plundered for anything of financial, military, industrial or cultural value, and the remaining population terrorised. The structure was plundered and demolished in the 4th century when a bishop decreed that Paganism must be eradicated. In 1428 the city was plundered by German pirates, and in 1455, Hanseatic merchants were responsible for burning down Munkeliv Abbey. Cromwell and his officers made no attempt to restrain their soldiers, who slaughtered the Wexford defenders and plundered the town. In India these endless mosques and rhetorical mausolea, these great palaces speak only of a personal plunder and a country with an infinite capacity for being plundered. These Alans therefore plundered the country without opposition, and with great ease, and proceeded as far as Armenia, laying waste all before them. Strongbow also invaded and plundered Offaly, but failed to subdue it. An incident played into British hands when, while passing Aden for trading purposes, one of their sailing ships sank and Arab tribesmen boarded it and plundered its contents. The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar. Show More Sentences The town was plundered and burnt, but its inhabitants fought back and defeated them, which led the French to retreat and raid towns in the West Country instead. After a while these turned against the British and plundered the towns. Ulstermen Chris Henry and Paddy Jackson both claimed first international tries as Ireland plundered match-winning dividends from their driving maul. The next devastating blow was the sack of the town by Thuringian landgrave Conrad in 1232, when much of the population was killed and the town plundered. The site remained undisturbed until 1913, when during a single weekend the site was plundered by a party with shovels who took away an unknown quantity of artefacts. The Zaporozhians gained a reputation for their raids against the Ottoman Empire and its vassals, although they sometimes plundered other neighbors as well. I mock them all who have served me ill of late and chiefly this cheat of Judah, whose temple we have plundered and whose golden vessels are my wash-pots. England's entry into the war later that year led to the French capture of Calais, and French armies plundered Spanish possessions in the Low Countries. Though thoroughly plundered, these monuments must have been the burial places of generations of Kushite rulers as identified in the Egyptian texts. Between the 8th and 11th centuries, raiders and colonists from Scandinavia, mainly Danish and Norwegian, plundered western Europe, including the British Isles. They were able to open the gate and allow a much larger party who set fire to the town and plundered its churches and homes leaving Abergavenny Castle intact. If a marriage agreement was made in 1059, it was not kept, and this may explain the Scots invasion of Northumbria in 1061 when Lindisfarne was plundered. Bell plundered 68 off them, improvising a couple of pre-mediated leg side hoicks that was straight out of the Viv Richards manual of batting unorthodoxy. Examples from Classical Literature The laird of rasa had taken part in the rebellion, and his domain had been plundered in consequence. The plundered boards and scantling had to be carried by the men half a mile. He had been plundered by every usurer in the Levant, and in turn had taken them in. They plundered a sum of 200,000 yen from the Ono Company, and made a successful raid upon the prefectural offices of Kumamoto. After this the ladrones returned, and plundered the town, every boat leaving it when laden. The Indians plundered us of what we had, and kept us in confinement seven days, treating us with common savage usage. He could always pretend afterwards that his godown had been plundered. They consisted principally of trinkets of little value, plundered from the slaughtered females of William Henry. Thieves knocked through a wall and plundered an exhibit of original Muppet puppets overnight Sunday at the Erfurt Garden Show in Germany. Bielefeld was openly plundered by the French for three hours long. Not out of my armory, for at Terracina I was plundered even of my hunting-knife. In all, five vessels were seized and plundered while lying at Darien. Once plundered by Sabean force, Some cald it war but others worse. Mechlin was plundered and set on fire by the Spanish troops. Fouquet has made an abatement of a third, so that the people have been plundered, without your majesty profiting by it. As for the fish in our seas, well they are being plundered by massive Spanish deep sea trawlers, with fish they catch coming from the seas that were deemed to be ours. A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks. Thus, the provision department, who plundered the clothes-presses and the harness-rooms, attached very little value to things which tailors and saddlers set great store by. Find more words! 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