ransack
Example Sentences
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Eventually she becomes at ease, convinced, at least enough, that me sitting in her seat hasn’t caused me to behave in any abnormal or dangerous ways, and that I don’t plan to ransack her workstation.
From Literature
Alberto Echemendía, the head of the Communist Party in Morón, held a rally of “revolutionary reaffirmation” in front of the ransacked party headquarters.
As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.
The elephants, after ransacking her house and eating her corn, urinated on what remained of her grain supply.
The offices of several environmentalist groups were ransacked in the Charente-Maritime department.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
