booty

Example Sentences

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Important works of art from Bohemian lands were destroyed by iconoclasts during the Hussite Wars of the 15th century, and much was taken as booty during the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

The penacho, experts say, was likely among the Mexican booty that the conquering Spanish dispatched back across the Atlantic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

“I think we kick ourselves in the booty by taking someone off the ballot, why force someone off a ballot,” shouts one woman in between cheers for the hockey.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024

Records of just one of Thutmose III’s campaigns in Canaan note that the booty included more than two thousand horses and twenty thousand sheep, almost two thousand goats, wheat,

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

I crossed my arms and shivered at the memory of Hamlet’s book, with its drawings of the corpse laid open, the vital parts within revealed like a pirate’s booty in a torn sack.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein