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

To the extent that “Mortal Engines” resembles anything, it’s other movies, which it plunders with a landfill-diving zeal that suits the surviving populace.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018

The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

Unshaven and unshorn since he left Rome last, he joins Cinna, leading six thousand fugitives, seizes and plunders the towns about Rome, while Cinna encamps beneath the walls.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)