plunders
Example Sentences
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A blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs has long served as a conservation code, with supernatural guardians believed to punish anyone who plunders the forest for greed.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
It plunders parental fantasies about our children as future professional athletes.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022
It has always been a taxing job, she says, but conditions have lately made it downright impossible, as staffing shortages nearly double her workload and a cost-of-living crisis plunders her modest paycheck.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
What a hideous mockery to call one "Brother," whom he maligns to the Profane, lends money unto at usury, defrauds in trade, or plunders at law by chicanery?
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert