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How to use ransacking in a sentence

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While I sample a Heineken, an old genever or two and a portion of marinated herring, she is busy ransacking the airport shops for free samples.
I'm here ransacking my closet for something good enough to wear, I can't believe all the trash I've got in here!
Soon bands of hungry insurgents were ransacking strongpoints in the city for arms, powder, and hoards of flour.
After ransacking the vestry and attempting to tear a steel donation box from the wall the burglars left empty-handed.
They forced their way in, demanded money and snatched a cordless phone from the man's hand before ransacking the house.
The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house.
The police spent an hour combing the residence, probing the floor and compound and ransacking the wardrobes.
Now, he's slashing capital expenditures and ransacking his portfolio for bits and pieces to sell, all to bring down debt.
Instead of ransacking the empty hive, other bees would avoid it like the plague.
In response, the Government brutally cracked down, firing into unarmed crowds and ransacking monasteries at night.
Recently, however, evil imps have been ransacking your possessions and scaring your people!
Men toting guns were ransacking shops of whatever they could carry.
Samar learned it was this same commander who had ordered the bombing and ransacking of her hospital inside Afghanistan.
Electricity has yet to be restored to downtown Tacloban and night-time shootings and ransacking have been reported in the area.
Peter Watkins' Culloden was a powerful recreation of the massacre of the Jacobites at the hands of the English in 1746, and the subsequent ransacking of the Highlands.
An outbreak of violence in N'Djamena, Chad in early February 2008 resulted in the ransacking of the Court's field office there.
To get the money together, Athens has been ransacking its health budget and the reserves of its public utilities.
Great art has felt the lick of flames before, but often by ransacking or accident.
But the motivation for ransacking museums, even for fundamentalists, is sometimes simpler.
However, it didn't seem like they were ransacking the place.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These are the faint sketches, which, on ransacking my brain, I find resting on its tablets.
So this is where he has lain, hiding, while I have been ransacking London for him!
While some of the soldiers were ill-treating her others were ransacking her wardrobes.
Mr. Cuthbert appeared to be ransacking the corners of his brain for words.
What ransacking of heathen mythologies for metaphors and allusions!
If Haldin had not turned up the police would have been already here ransacking the house.
He accused some elements of the army and civilians of taking advantage of the insecurity situation and ransacking Bor.
A great writer does not begin by ransacking for the odd and new.
Billy seemed to be ransacking his vocabulary for abstract nouns.
I spent it in ransacking the library until I discovered a medical book which gave a description of strychnine poisoning.
He stuck to the business right along, and went on planning and thinking and ransacking his head.
The journals tell how the Steinways, with the help of an Irish priest, paid off the leader of an Irish mob intent on ransacking the Steinway piano factory in lower Manhattan.
There was a wild consultation, and afterwards a hurrying to and fro and a feverish gathering up of razors from obscure places and a ransacking for soap.
Everybody was frantic over this loss, and two brave yeomen sacrificed their lives in ransacking the burning house seeking that valuable personage.
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