Example sentences for: sacked

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

  • The answer may well be in the affirmative, seeing as how one parochial school sacked a female teacher because she was divorced . But this will at least be a start.

  • As you make your way to the present day site you’ll pass the evocative ruins of an earlier monastery (Káto Préveli) sacked by the Turks in 1821, and the fathers aided many allied prisoners to escape in WWII.

  • In 86 b.c., Roman general Sulla sacked the city in retribution for its unwise alliance with Mithridates, King of Pontus and bitter enemy of Rome.

  • Set on the side of a rocky ravine and incorporating several caves, the monastery was sacked by pirates, after which the community moved to higher ground and founded Gouvernétou.

  • The temple was originally part of the larger Zhengjue Temple complex (built during the reign of Ming Emperor Yongle in the 1420s and sacked by Western troops in 1860 and 1900).


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