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Meanings of pillaged in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sacked"
Examples for "sacked"
1
She didn't even let him finish the sentence: 'You're sacked,' she said.
2
Health is often used as the reason when senior officials are sacked.
3
Hundreds have been sacked from government jobs, rights and opposition groups say.
4
However, the Raiders sacked Rivers five times and played a turnover-free game.
5
The newspaper said Edmondson was sacked as a result of the investigation.
1
Regina Simons claimed Seagal raped her 25 years ago at his home.
2
According to the Los Angeles Times, some prisoners say they were raped.
3
According to statistics, a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes.
4
EXCLUSIVE Sandra was raped at work, now she's gagged by the law.
5
Her family said she was raped and murdered in a drunken rampage.
1
We often hear the term 'flood-ravaged' used in relation to some areas.
2
This comes after countless cases of gender-based violence have ravaged the country.
3
A major drive to distribute aid throughout Vanuatu's cyclone-ravaged islands, started today.
4
A great battle must have ravaged this coast some time in history.
5
Or that it only exists in countries ravaged by war and poverty.
1
Thus the polar reservoirs are despoiled in the act of being opened.
2
They recalled it all as it had been and felt themselves despoiled.
3
The two structures just described were long ago broken into and despoiled.
4
He had completely despoiled his wife, and had left her for ever.
5
She was despoiled of nothing, since Texas was forever lost to her.
Usage of pillaged in English
1
In the space of perhaps an hour, she had pillaged every room.
2
There was not a house in the town but had been pillaged.
3
The generals of the United States never permit individuals to be pillaged.
4
He pillaged that store with the thoroughness of the Crusaders looting Constantinople.
5
The temples and palaces were pillaged, and finally the city was burnt.
6
The population was massacred without mercy, and the town pillaged and burnt.
7
The city might have been, not only pillaged, but laid in ruins.
8
And at last he clearly saw that the house was being pillaged.
9
The military mob pillaged the palace and proclaimed their chieftain, Vseslaf, king.
10
Several jigger-sized whiskey bottles pillaged from the hotel's minibar littered the nightstand.
11
The barons' men from Herstmonceux pillaged the lands of Walderne or Pevensey.
12
Mobutu has pillaged his country and deposited the proceeds in Swiss accounts.
13
Many of the discharged soldiers turned highwaymen, pillaged farmhouses, and robbed travelers.
14
Now one, now another wanted to see how the pillaged house looked.
15
Thoughtless lumbermen have pillaged millions of acres of our most productive forests.
16
For an hour or two they cut and slashed, pillaged and robbed.
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Pillaged across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common