Example sentences for: plundered

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

  • Arab trade with India had long since whetted the appetites of the Muslims; when Indian pirates plundered their ships off the coast of Sind in 711, it provoked the Governor of Chaldea (now Iraq) to send troops with 6,000 horses and 6,000 camels to conquer the Sind rajas and offer the alternative of converting to Islam or death.

  • Then the peasants and bourgeoisie were expected to live lives of probity, while the king and his court whored and plundered as they pleased.

  • He unleashed a 16-day reign of terror that left 300 Madeirans dead, stocks of sugar destroyed, and the island plundered.

  • Shivaji then had himself crowned King of the Marathas and, to pay his soldiers, plundered the country all the way east to Madras.

  • If Texaco executives had indulged their personal tastes for Van Gogh oil paintings at a multimillion-dollar cost to the stockholders, it would be self-evident that the stockholders had been plundered.


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