Example sentences for: looting

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

  • Nine pyramid investment schemes collapsed, which wiped out the life savings of thousands of Albanians, which led to protests, which led to rebellion, which led to police giving loyalist civilians assault weapons, which led to gunfire, looting, and roving bands of robbers.

  • I think what's going on now is basically the looting of the country's resources by an elite of ex-communists, speculators and mafiosi.

  • Both the LAT and the NYT front pictures of the aftermath of the looting and arson rampage that wound up Woodstock '99.

  • During the march, a black gang called the Invaders began looting, the cops attacked them (and the peaceful demonstrators), and a full-scale riot left dozens hurt.

  • In the Book of Joshua, soldiers were executed for transgressing certain implicit rules of warfare , like looting conquered cities.


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