Example sentences for: looted

How can you use “looted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For a change, it’s not something that Napoléon looted during a campaign, but was a gift from Mohammed Ali, viceroy of Egypt.

  • On the eve of Monday's withdrawal of Indonesian troops from East Timor, the Straits Times of Singapore reported that in their last days on the island, Indonesian soldiers were seen selling what appeared to be either looted goods or redirected foreign aid at "exorbitant prices" to "needy East Timorese."

  • The Americans burned and looted York, provoking a violent British reprisal raid on Washington.

  • Some priceless sculpture was in the past looted by Europeans and Americans.

  • Other prominent stories in the British press included Thursday's $90 million record-breaking sale at Christie's in London of a famous art collection looted by the Nazis from the Austrian Rothschilds in 1938 and recently restored to their American heirs, and the news that fox hunting is almost certain to be abolished in Britain now that Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he will support legislation against it.


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