Words similar to plundering

Example sentences for: plundering

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Immediately, the Balinese rajas agreed to stop the plundering of wrecks, and to pay compensation for the 1841 incident, but it soon became clear that they had no intention of honoring the deal.
They ruled the seas, plundering ships at will, and then spent their ill-gotten gains in the bars and brothels of Nassau town, the main settlement.
Once re-established in Java, the Dutch attempted to increase their influence and also to prevent the Balinese from plundering ships wrecked off the coast (the Balinese considered shipwrecks to be gifts from the deities of the seas, and felt it would be insulting to refuse them).
The Normans from Scandinavia took advantage of the Carolingian dynasty’s divided kingdom, pillaging their way inland along the Loire and the Seine, and plundering Paris in 845.
Even though the American taste for plundering placenames has provided words like telethon to other nations, some have commited semantic thefts of their own.