pillaging

How To Use pillaging In A Sentence

• The problem is that if the pirates carry on pillaging the fish, they will put themselves, and the rest of the world's legitimate tuna boats, out of business.
• According to the pirate legend, after months at sea, pillaging and singing sea chanties, the marauders had to stop in at a pirate-friendly settlement to unload their looted cargo, load up on supplies, and visit the local taverns and brothels. Loaded Guns, Barrels of Rum, and a Silk Ribbon
• This would ensure that the massive pillaging of the fiscus which is currently taking place would be checked before it jeapordises the transition process. ANC Daily News Briefing
• The mainland Northlanders all tended to be brutal - shipmasters, raiding the coasts of nearby kingdoms, pillaging and burning.
• Dr. Griffin compensated by raping and pillaging other programs to get the money back for Ares Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
• We're supposed to believe that pillaging the planet is part of an inevitable progression.
• During the sacking of the houses of the local aristocracy, pillaging was sufficiently controlled for some of the furnishings to be given to the poor, to deflect accusations of theft.
• On entering the ruined city, and finding it pillaged, the Russians pillaging it too.
• They were easily led to consider the flames that were consuming France, not as a warning to protect their own buildings (which were without any party wall, and linked by a contignation into the edifice of France,) but as a happy occasion for pillaging the goods, and for carrying off the materials, of their neighbour's house. Political Pamphlets
• A spokeswoman for the station said: ‘The general notion is of Vikings with horned helmets raping and pillaging but that is not really true.’