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

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 sly sayu ventures to approach the dwellings of men, where he plunders maize fields with incredible dexterity.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina