Example sentences for: raiding

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

  • Whether the northern tribes made the pass difficult to defend by their constant raiding is still debated by scholars, but it is known that the local inhabitants weren’t willing to give the Romans free rein over the whole territory.

  • Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung led its front page Thursday with an exclusive revelation that a raiding party of East German academics had secretly opened the coffin of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 30 years ago.

  • It seems that when federal agents executed a search warrant at the Montana ranch of Paul Berger to look for signs of poisoned bald eagles (they didn't find any), they included in their raiding party three CNN employees with video cameras, and the agents themselves were wearing wires that went to a CNN feed.

  • The Maya went out on raiding parties, taking hostages from the surrounding lands to use in their bloody ceremonies.

  • (See Slate 's review of his The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories .) Banned from giving interviews by a judicial gag order, Paula Jones was doing "her best to prevent their two young children running amok and raiding the fridge," while her husband spoke on her behalf, Evans-Pritchard wrote.


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