Example sentences for: raiders

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

  • Venice, founded on its islets and lagoons in the sixth century by mainland refugees fleeing Lombard raiders, prospered from a privileged relationship with Byzantium and an uninhibited readiness to trade with Muslims and others farther east.

  • The pressure created by those acquisitions, though, was a good thing (as, in retrospect, the pressure created by the corporate raiders of the 1980s was).

  • In their place is a lot of sub- Raiders of the Lost Ark swashbuckling, plus sight gags pilfered from Sam Raimi's 1993 Army of Darkness (the last of his The Evil Dead trilogy) and genre-deflating banter that's like an untalented sophomore's stab at Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

  • The Republican spin: The Democrats are the real raiders since they won't cut spending.

  • When King Louis V refused to come to their aid against Moorish raiders, the counts of Barcelona declared their independence in 988, a date celebrated as Catalonia’s birth as a nation-state.


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