Example sentences for: plunder

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

  • Retrospectively, says Lewis, the Aug. 17 Russian ruble debacle was but the precipitating event; an expanding web of media and finance market rumors, plus Wall Street sharks out to plunder Long-Term, ensured the firm's collapse.

  • Unfortunately, the creative ferment by no means precluded new horrors of war, assassination, persecution, plunder, and rape.

  • Experts debated whether he would be remembered more for his brutal tyranny or for his corruption and plunder of the economy.

  • The New York Times lead reveals China's plunder of nuclear technology from American government laboratories, and the U.S.'s subsequent mishandling, avoidance, and suppression of follow-up investigations.

  • Earthquake, fire, flood, and the plunder of barbarians and Renaissance architects reduced the area to a muddy cow pasture until the excavations of the 19th century.


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