Example sentences for: sacking

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

  • Institutional investors insist upon sacking nonperforming bosses, and board members fear that lackluster leadership will damage their own reputations.

  • In 1554, after the sixth sacking, the settlers decided to move inland to the town’s present hilltop location.

  • Driven back to Sardis, he witnessed the sacking of his city by the army of Cyrus the Great, in 546 b.c.

  • The Acropolis had been a sanctuary to Athena Nike since the fifth century b.c. and following the sacking of the site by the Persians a new smaller temple, or naïskos, was commissioned and designed by Callicrates.

  • There is still no fully plausible successor, and sacking Gingrich would mean Republicans running in 1998 on a record of catastrophe rather than mere inaction.


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