How to Use ransack in a Sentence

ransack

verb

• The room had been ransacked.
• Robbers ransacked the apartment looking for money.
• 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
• Or, find the team that ransacked New York City two weeks ago and win the whole darn thing.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2018
• Once inside, the home was ransacked and a gun safe was pried open.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• 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
• When they were found in their Spring home two days later, the house was ransacked and their Porsche stolen.
  — Alyson Ward, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
• The son's upstairs bedroom was ransacked and two smart phones and $100 cash was stolen.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The men ransacked the home and took a cellphone, laptop, a photo ID and $222 in cash, police said.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• 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 victims were then moved to the front porch and held captive by Trull for more than 30 minutes while the others ransacked the house.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• 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
• After ransacking the home, the men took off in Douglas’ car but abandoned it down the street.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• At that point, Knutson said, the attacker would ransack the house.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 26 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
• 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
• Last year, its storehouse, a massive space filled with grains and rice, was ransacked.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• Presumably, Thanos figured out that Loki had the Space Stone and ransacked the ship to get it.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Apr. 2018
• The action game gave players the freedom to ransack the mall and using nearly anything as a weapon.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• The man had not been to the home since mid-August and said he was alerted the previous day via email that the contractor had found the back door open and that the home appeared to have been ransacked.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024