Example sentences for: plundered

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

  • Not to be left behind, we've plundered the extensive newspaper archives at the Columbia University School of Journalism, our Nexis account, and even Peter Jennings' new best-selling book to assemble a more compelling--and concise--look at the 100 high points of the century.

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

  • It was plundered by everybody, especially Bob Dylan, who swiped, alluded, and rewrote, so much in the spirit of the original works, among which lines and verses migrate freely, that he forcefully inserted himself into the tradition.

  • The president is said to have plundered $6 billion straight from the government treasury, making him one of the richest men in the world.

  • Cynical and disgusted, Gates gets wind (so to speak) of a wild discovery: a map lodged in the rear end of an Iraqi prisoner that shows what appear to be bunkers holding loot plundered from Kuwait.


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