Example sentences for: plundered

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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


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