How to Use ransack in a Sentence

ransack

verb

• The room had been ransacked.
• Robbers ransacked the apartment looking for money.
• At that point, Knutson said, the attacker would ransack the house.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Police said the vehicle had been left unlocked and its inside was found ransacked.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• It was found at the bottom of a 30ft pit, in a tomb that had been ransacked and robbed in antiquity.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
• The men took his wallet, stepped over his body and ransacked his home, where Kaynor's wife and 8-year-old daughter slept.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• As the trio pulled up to the grocery store, the business appeared to be completely ransacked, with only debris and a few cans here and there.
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2018
• Someone smashed the glass window of a front door, unlocked it and ransacked the home, stealing items including a Seiko watch.
  — Staff Report, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• An unlocked vehicle was ransacked and several items were missing.
  — Staff Report, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Presumably, Thanos figured out that Loki had the Space Stone and ransacked the ship to get it.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Apr. 2018
• The [perpetrator] then ransacked the residence and raped the female victim.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Its supporters have ransacked H&M clothing shops over an allegedly racist advert.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• Authorities said Mulzac had ransacked the home and fled to his native Massachusetts, leaving the retired nurse to die.
  — Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 12 Apr. 2018
• Henry confronted a woman who was on a property owned by his family, which had apparently been robbed and ransacked while Henry was away.
  — Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2018
• Several rooms were ransacked and various items including jewelry were taken.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Deputies who went to the house found the front door open and rooms ransacked.
  — La Cañada Valley Sun, 4 Sep. 2019
• The house was filthy and looked like it had been ransacked.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
• The trucks get smashed up, and the stuff gets looted or ransacked off the backs of the trucks.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The killer had ransacked the home, found a floor safe in the closet and emptied it.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 23 June 2023
• The suspects forced the man to open the door to his home and ransacked the place, before fleeing the scene with cash.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Instead, Bridge and Dom open Jo’s door to find that the house has been ransacked.
  — Daneet Steffens, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Moïse is held at gunpoint as the room is ransacked in search of the document.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
• The statement said that the house had not been ransacked, and that no valuables were found to be missing.
  — Time, 1 July 2018
• It was taken and the home ransacked soon after the uncle died.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al.com, 3 July 2019
• But a bear and possum barbecue for the whole city to ransack?
  — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Over the years, the inside of the vacant building has been ransacked, set on fire and torn apart from ceiling to floor.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2020
• The episode ends as his band of thieves violently ransacks the Frasers' camp along the river.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2018
• As imams called people onto the streets, a mob ransacked and burned a small clinic.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Shouldn’t this place be ransacked by hordes of tourists every hour of every day?
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• In the wake of that successful grilling, Tommy returned home to find that his place had been broken into and ransacked.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024