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

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

Before anyone calls a lawyer, it is important to say that the Ontario woman whose life she plunders most is herself.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

The sounds produced were exactly similar to those often heard in the depths of the American forest, when the dread crotalus plunders the nest of the Virginian nightingale.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne