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
The seven-minute odyssey plunders rock’s then-forbidden city with burbling basslines and guitar wizardry so breathtaking nobody bothered to revoke Greenwood’s daytime-radio visa.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2020
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
It lives in villages under ground," says an American writer, "and plunders the farmers worse than the gopher.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
