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 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

It helps that Lothar Koenigs, conducting, plunders the score for every last ounce of feeling, exceptionally delivered by the WNO orchestra.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2013

The miser and the usurer said: "Doubtless this man plunders the provinces."

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by