Example sentences for: looting

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

  • The image of monsters in masks was common to the reporting both from Kosovo and from Borneo where, according to the Sydney Morning Herald , "masked men, some in Indonesian military uniforms, attacked the village of Ritabou, looting and vandalising homes and firing on civilians."

  • I first noticed it in the early 1980s, coincident with the apex of the looting of the savings and loans, about when Merriam-Webster discovered the tolerable side of Seth Pecksniff.

  • Highlights from the melee included: 12 tractor-trailers set on fire, impromptu stripteases, giant bonfires with people leaping through the flames, looting of T-shirt vendors' booths, smashed ATMs, and a food fight with liberated soft pretzels.

  • 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.

  • Capsule Description Funeral: a moving tribute to a fallen leader Festival: three days of peace, love, music, looting, arson, and riot


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