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How to use pillage in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Pillage means to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war. Example: “The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way.”

Examples of pillage by meaning

verbTo loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

  • He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

More sentences with pillage

  • The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way.From the entry heathendom
  • They are allowing Enron to continue to pillage and burn the West Coast.2009, Congressional Record, V. 150, Pt. 9, June 2, 2004 to June 16 2004. From the entry Enronomics
  • The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die."2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Culture Codex entry. From the entry future
  • The Swedish soldiers had already pillaged and burnt all the villages around Mikulov, Mikulov alone resisted.1995, Eduard Petiška, translated by Norah Hronkovà, Tales of Castles in the Land of Moravia, Martin, page 45. From the entry Mikulov
  • He spent the years after the Maccabean victory pillaging whatever small settlements happened to strike his fancy.1988 December 4, Liz Galst, “Lesbian Maccabee Unmasked!”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 7. From the entry bubbe meise
  • Save these bricks, "I found hardly anything, the inhabitants have pillaged everything long ago.1920, Rustichello da Pisa, translated by Henry Yule, edited by Henri Cordier, The Travels of Marco Polo, →OCLC. From the entry Tatrang
  • And a good place to pillage or barter tchotchkes.”2022 July 26, William Meny & Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (5:01 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4…. From the entry tchotchke
  • The Mandilion had been preserved at Constantinople until it disappeared when the town was pillaged by the Latin Crusaders.1967, Titus Burckhardt; Lord Northbourne (Walter Earnest Christopher James), transl., Sacred Art in East and West: Its Principles and…. From the entry mandylion
  • The nests of waterfowl and game birds, mostly on the ground, are subject to a great deal of pillaging.1951, Alan Devoe, This Fascinating Animal World, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, page 122. From the entry seamlessness
  • Spine-chilling tales of reiving raids are a legendary legacy of these violent times, when careless murder, theft and pillage were everyday professions.2011, Mark Richards, Hadrian's Wall Path: Two-way national trail description, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry reive
  • Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.2011 January 8, Brian McHugh, The Guardian. From the entry backcourt
  • Lacy reported that in the Hokchiang (Futsing) District Christians were driven from their homes, their fields pillaged, fruit trees destroyed, and houses razed.1957, Wade Crawford Barclay, The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845-1939, volume 3, New York: Board of Missions of The Methodist Church…. From the entry Hokchiang
  • Banks, pawn-shops, and large stores were pillaged and burned, the buildings on either side of the Ta Hutung being almost completely destroyed by fire.1924, “Tientsin”, in Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, etc., of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on the Condition and…. From the entry hutung
  • Or you could join our present gracious viceroy — gracious by right of murder, pillage, rapine, and the word of a boy Emperor, since rightfully assassinated.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), Part V: “The Merchant Princes”, Ch.10, pp.157–158. From the entry rapine

Meaning of pillage

  1. verb To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
  2. noun The spoils of war.
  3. noun The act of pillaging.

Full definition of pillage

Questions about pillage in a sentence

How do you use pillage in a sentence?
Pillage is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way.”
What is a short sentence with pillage?
“And a good place to pillage or barter tchotchkes.””
What does pillage mean?
Pillage means to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

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