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.

  • In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a “legitimate target” as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.

  • 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.

  • Its walls put one in mind of a fortress rather than a religious refuge — though even these were not enough to protect it against its enemies and it was sacked several times in its early history.

  • In 1544 the English invaded, set fire to the palace, and sacked the abbey.


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