ransack

I just hope you didn’t ransack your college-savings account to do it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Overton’s 32 from 21 balls and Archer’s 17-ball 38 helped the visitors ransack 100 in the last 10 overs, including 21 off the final over.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024

By that he meant the way representatives from other schools would surely try to lure his players away, using lucrative NIL offers to ransack his team through the transfer portal.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

Thursday’s announcement that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp. prompted news organizations the world over to ransack the obituaries they have been keeping in their vaults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

One night I have to run to ransack the couch cushions for my ringing phone and pick up without checking first to see who it is.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

McEwan ransacks recent U.K. history, telescoping its events into a demented counter-factual fantasia marked by insurrection and overflowing garbage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019

That can be useful when scientists or wildlife managers must relocate an animal, such as a grizzly bear that ransacks campsites for food.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2019

During a peaceful evening at church, someone ransacks the family home and steals their beloved dog.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2018

The radical choreographer Elizabeth Streb has grown weary of meeting people who tell her, “Oh, you’re the one who ransacks the body and runs into walls.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2015

I taunted him, as he searched the tool-box in the same way a child ransacks a Christmas stocking.

From The Motor Maid by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

Pharmacies, supermarkets and other businesses were ransacked, said residents, some of whom complained of the slow and meager post-quake aid coming from authorities.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

One baby ransacked her belongings, another clung to her for months as a surrogate mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

What to make of the Cherries now the defence that served them so well has been ransacked?

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025

After a den of thieves ransacked a rural Northern California home so many times that the owner fled in fear, the property fell into even wilder hands: a group of bears, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

For the next two weeks, Little Jule is alone in that ransacked house.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

The pontiff responded by saying he had a "moral duty to speak out" against war -- and then sparked more headlines with a speech in Cameroon lambasting "tyrants" ransacking the world.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

A Los Angeles city councilmember is calling for more police officers and resources following the latest in a string of robberies and ransacking at 7-Eleven convenience stores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024

In 1874 after an Asante attack, British troops launched a "punitive expedition", in the colonial language of the time, ransacking Kumasi and taking many of the palace treasures.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024

I began ransacking the house and while overturning the torn straw mattress I found a pair of old, rusted keys in one of the holes.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane