Example sentences for: pillage

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

  • The invasion of Attila’s Huns and the Goths and Vandals who came to sack, rape, murder, and pillage Rome brought an end to the Western Empire in 476 with the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus.

  • For what it is worth, the most conspicuous examples of environmental pillage in the Third World today have nothing to do with the WTO.

  • With remarkable persistence the pirates climbed all the way, twice, just to pillage San Germán.

  • For there is little doubt in the writer’s mind that Joaquín’s aims were higher than that of mere revenge and pillage.

  • Except in times of war or pillage, it changed hands only as a gift.


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