How to Use plunder in a Sentence

plunder

1 of 2 verb

• Thieves had long ago plundered the tomb.
• The village was plundered by the invading army.
• The soldiers continued plundering for days.
• At the end of the main game, the goose scampers across a model of the village just plundered.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
• When trust is the order of the day, predators are free to plunder.
  — Jim McDermott, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• Or showed up as a band of pirates, here to pillage and plunder.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2021
• And, as the water keeps dwindling, plundered by drought and overuse, these costs could rise.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• Its style and ideas live on in a realm beyond copyright, free for all to plunder.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2020
• And resources the group plundered from Sirte helped it spring back from defeat.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• No call out of centuries of British bloody conquest and plunder.
  — Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022
• One source that the service could plunder from is ABC, which Disney owns.
  — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
• But this one is all pleasure — and too brilliant to plunder.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
• His goal is to restore what’s been unfairly plundered by the white man.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Of course, having the staff of a successful team plundered is business as usual in the NFL.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• This is just the bounty plundered from 15 minutes of research.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• Though there were many police officers present for the march, looters were able to plunder stores with few to stop them.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 31 May 2020
• Family members try to step in, to no avail, as the guardian proceeds to sell the woman’s home and plunder her assets.
  — Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, 27 May 2021
• There is also surely African art that has been plundered from its homeland.
  — Ira Madison Iii, GQ, 19 June 2018
• And with success, the rest of those teams will undoubtedly plunder the Ravens’ coaching and front office staffs.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
• No promise to clean up corruption and then plunder away.
  — Libby Nelson, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
• The Iranian regime has funded its long reign of chaos and terror by plundering the wealth of its own people.
  — CNN, 8 May 2018
• Enlarge / Bonnet's motley crew is ready to loot and plunder.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2022
• At one time tea was so valuable that pirates liked to plunder tea-carrying ships in the South China Sea.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
• But the new-model Viking had considerably more on his mind than plunder.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• His newest title has a hoary theme: plundering a pharaoh's tomb for treasure.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 21 July 2018
• The official royal burial tombs had long since been plundered over the centuries.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023
• Now, Mike settles for watching the squirrels plunder his apple trees.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 27 June 2022
• The story of the Tulsa Massacre brings to mind others, large and small, with common themes of violence, plunder, and erasure.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• But during the week the hacker had control, more than $1 million was plundered from the governance system.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 26 May 2023
• By invading and laying waste to parts of Ukraine, Putin both harms a competitor in world markets and plunders its resources.
  — James K. Glassman, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023

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plunder

2 of 2 noun

• All evidence suggested that the plunder of the tomb had happened long ago.
• The first reports of grain plunder emerged in mid-March.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• What was at stake in the Miller case, in other words, was much more than one man’s decades of plunder.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2021
• To Hades, leaving plunder for the dogs And countless birds.
  — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• The human zoo was gone, but silence about the plunder remained.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2019
• One of its favorite foods is the carpenter ant, nests of which the pileated drills into and plunders.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2020
• Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it.
  — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• These, too, were running out, owing to slaughter and plunder.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• It’s forged with the intention of being passed from hand to hand, taken as plunder, given as a gift or handed down to heirs.
  — David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• The theft of raccoons provided a moment of dark levity among the other plunder and tragedy.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 13 Nov. 2022
• Upstairs, in the grand rooms, the only bust of Leopold on display is made of ivory and aims to explain how the plunder of the country extended to the wholesale slaughter of elephants.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2020
• The total value of the plunder is contested — and the subject of the dueling lawsuits as Brink’s and the jewelers feud over how much they should be paid.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
• But the full reality of Nazi plunder was far more mundane, which was perhaps the essence of its cruelty.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2019
• Alabama’s three-term state treasurer knew his life of promise and plunder was at an end.
  — al, 7 Aug. 2019
• The barbarians are, as in the age of Benedict and Augustine, never far off, bent on plunder and destruction.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• What if the continent’s vast riches were never stolen and the plunder of black bodies never happened?
  — The Root Staff, The Root, 16 Feb. 2018
• In Maeve's understanding, the Ghost Nation showed up in the name of violence, to attack, pillage and plunder.
  — refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
• Stories about the plunder of Spanish holdings were popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, says Kenyon.
  — National Geographic, 5 Jan. 2018
• Both men built a nation while making possible the plunder of millions of people.
  — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022
• Prisoners of war were paraded before Rome, as well as the plunder gained through the victory.
  — Andrea Frediani, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
• In the 1800s, one of Egypt’s rulers pried stones off the pyramids to erect new mosques (though, as far as pharaonic plunder goes, European visitors were greedier).
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Worn as a brooch by Queen Victoria, the Kohinoor, one of the largest diamonds in the world, was one of many plunders of British imperialism.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• These Scandinavians didn’t venture to new lands solely in search of plunder.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
• The plunder lasted several hours, Mr. Wöhlke said, before the police moved in.
  — Andrea Thomas, WSJ, 9 July 2017
• With probes ongoing in several countries, the extent of the plunder is still unknown, but is set to amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.
  — David Herbling, Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• McFall still is not certain that Asian giant hornets were responsible for the plunder of his hive.
  — Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2020
• The fight, which is getting ugly, is emblematic of a bigger one of identity, rights and plunder.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2017
• In the film, her brief, fiery encounters with Victoria (played by Amanda Root) emphasize the plunder that marked British colonial rule.
  — Shashank Bengali, star-telegram, 18 July 2017
• The migrants can kill, plunder, and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 July 2019
• Hampered by their haul of plunder, however, the Spanish were too slow in crossing Lake Texcoco.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024