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• The soldiers give themselves to plunder.From the entry give
• The two are handmaking mirrors, sculptures and furnishings from salvaged materials (or “plundered trash,” as Mr.2009 June 11, Penelope Green, “Save That Driftwood for Them”, in New York Times. From the entry handmake
• Panic-stricken, Chinese troops fled further east, toward Tsitsihar, plundering the countryside.1974, George Alexander Lensen, “Red Russians versus White Chinese”, in The Damned Inheritance: The Soviet Union and the Manchurian Crises…. From the entry Pokotu
• I 'spect you'll be able to haul all their house plunder at one load.1940, Jesse Stuart, “Part IV”, in Trees of Heaven, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, published 1980, →ISBN, section 1, page 188. From the entry house plunder
• He handled it with cotton leather-palmed gloves that had been buried with the rest of his plunder.1929, Arthur H. Carhart, Stanley P. Young, The Last Stand of the Pack. From the entry calfhide
• “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 180. From the entry 'm
• He sees in Conan a red-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land.2014, Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, →ISBN. From the entry red-handed
• It came from the east, so Waterman guessed it was the dreaded Vacavillians attempting to plunder his castle again.2013 July 5, Tony Wade, “Back in the Day: The medieval history of Fairfield, California”, in Daily Republic, archived from the original on…. From the entry Vacavillian
• In d'Allemagne's vitriolic prose, Québec bears an incredible resemblance to Kenya, Rhodesia, and South Africa under white 'settlerist plunder and dispossession.2012, Pius Adesanmi, You're Not a Country, Africa, →ISBN. From the entry settlerist
• If Delphi was in fact medizing, why did the Persians attempt to take it and to plunder its sanctuary?1979, Hypomnemata: Untersuchungen zur Antike und ihrem Nachleben, Heft 55, Servants of the Gods: A Study in the Religion, History and…. From the entry medize
• If anything, the decision represents an important victory to both emerging and accomplished tenderpreneurs who have undoubtedly distinguished themselves in clandestine plundering of state resources.2010 October 24, “As Hawks fail us crooks plot anew”, in Sunday World (Sputh Africa). From the entry tenderpreneur
• Plundering, raiding and annexure of other weaker nations have become survival normality and we seem to accept these as part of life.2009, Maduka E. Agbodike, Colonial Conspiracies in Africa, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry annexure
• Then they got to asking the mill to grind out good clothes for them to wear and new house plunder, and it ground out that.2007, Anne Shelby, “Grind Mill Grind”, in The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University…. From the entry house plunder
• Such plundering and jumbling of the storehouse of yesterday’s empires, this melting pot or métissage of past power, was the true indicator of present might.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry melting pot
• American, Japanese and European multinational corporations continue to landgrab tens of thousands of hectares of land for their agribusiness and plunder Mindanao's natural resources.1986, IDOC Internazionale - Volume 17, page 27. From the entry landgrab
• Even pirate crews and bands of robbers prefer a peaceful settled understanding as to the division of their plunder to the Kilkenny cat plan.1984, Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry Kilkenny cat
• It was said the plundering of “Ichang Supplying and Sciling Cooperative” freighters traveling on the Hsi River was the work of these youths.1977 May 29, “Educated youths make trouble in big cities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 21, Taipei, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry HSI
• The organization of tribes for the purpose of the free administration of affairs was turned into an organization for plundering and oppressing their neighbors.1909, Friedrich Engels, translated by Ernest Untermann, “Chapter 9”, in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. From the entry gentilism
• But the others regularly fail to materialize, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution—frequently though not inevitably—our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder.2024 March, Angus Deaton, “Rethinking My Economics”, in F&D Magazine. From the entry upward
• I plunder in my handbag for my purse but he says, “It’s on the house.” I was so glad of the cup of tea and lovely Pavlova.2015, Margaret Cameron, “The Escapee Granny”, in Original Writing from Ireland’s Own: An Anthology of the Best Stories from the Annual…. From the entry pavlova
• The following year Muslim armies plundered the Tagus valley while Leónese forces, working in co-operation with the Caliph al-Mansur and the kingdom of Navarre, attacked from the west.2013, Nicholas Morton, “The struggle for Spain, 1195–1232”, in The Medieval Military Orders, 1120–1314, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York…. From the entry Leónese
• There may not be anything seditious about his music, but plundering and ravaging the tracks needed to create it requires a spirit of rebellion at odds with corporate organization.2010, Jonathon Keats, Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry seditious
• Policies like these, which come close to being plunder, would seem to violate international law, but Washington's response to that is simply to rattle its sabre.2006, Theodore Roszak, World, Beware!: American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror, page 96. From the entry rattle one's sabre
• Only for a brief two centuries in the Middle Ages did a Baltic community coalesce, under the Hanseatic League of prosperous cities that valued trade over plunder.1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 605. From the entry over
• I mock them all who have served me ill of late and chiefly this cheat of Judah, whose temple we have plundered and whose golden vessels are my wash-pots.1924, H. Rider Haggard, Belshazzar. From the entry serve
• Romanus at once took the field against the Seljukian hordes, who were now devastating Cappadocia with fiendish cruelty, and had just captured Caesarea and plundered the shrine of St.1921, T.F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273, page 107. From the entry Seljukian
• The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.1904, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 9, page 208. From the entry borderer
• Its waters have been despoiled and plundered to the brink of disaster – and in the case of the Grand Banks cod fishery, sent over that edge into deathly extinction.2010 October 8, Kevin Rushby, “Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry pond

Meaning of plunder

1. verb To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
2. verb To take (goods) by pillage.
3. verb To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.

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How do you use plunder in a sentence?

Plunder is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The mercenaries plundered the small town.”

What is a short sentence with plunder?

“The mercenaries plundered the small town.”

What does plunder mean?

Plunder means to pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.