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How to use rapine in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word rapine? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Plunder and rapine made her rich, and her oppression of millions made her great.
Three weeks of rapine, slaughter and plunder were sufficient to anger the king and the emperor, who entered into negotiations with each other.
You see, he has learned a thing or two from my own back-stabbing acts of rapine ferocity, and doubtless he is applying it to his own affairs.
Subsistence farmers, who live off their harvest and risk falling victim to rapine or drought, can depend only on themselves and their children.
Plunder and rapine were a way of life and no man trusted his brother.
Are we now a desolate husk of a country, sucked dry by Eduardo Saverin's rapine?
In 35 years, law and order, and security and religious toleration, have been substituted for rapine, disorder, official tyranny, and religious persecution.
So no government or green has tried hard to stop the rapine.
The turning of your ship into a sea-rover would have made the entire ocean a scene of outrage, rapine, and murder.
A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches.
Examples from Classical Literature
At this period, Rothe, a Ruthenian rover, almost destroyed our country with his rapine and cruelty.
He was the worthy son of a family of scoundrels, and lived by theft and rapine.
The benignant laws of the Incas were replaced by the rapine of the conquerors.
Falcons are marvellously organised for rapine, and realise the ideal of a bird of prey.
Little did she suspect that they were beacon-fires calling to deeds of blood and rapine.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition.
The back country of Virginia was also a scene of massacre and rapine.
Night is, in fact, their true time for rapine and desperate deeds.
Let them not fail to find for it task after task of blood and rapine.
Their appetite for rapine was insatiate, unrestrained, and irresistible.
You've a thousand years of quarrels, of fighting and rapine behind you.
Al-Hadji and his bands then repassed the Senegal, and reappeared in the Kaarta, continuing their rapine and murder.
Government being unable to collect the taxes, and failing to maintain its authority, the hand of violence and rapine would remain uncontrolled.
At his command havoc and rapine were let loose once more among the temples of the worship of Brahmah.
Plunder, rapine, and luxury took the place of duty performed.
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