How do you use Looted in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pillaged or plundered, plus the exact meaning.
Looted in a sentence
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Looted meaning
simple past and past participle of loot
Using Looted
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of loot
- Useful related words include: pillaged, plundered, ransacked, empty.
- In the example corpus, looted often appears in combinations such as: looted and, and looted, were looted.
Context around Looted
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Looted
- In this selection, "looted" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, goods, eight, store, gold, art and amid stand out and add context to how "looted" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also allegedly looted some of and art was looted the issue. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "looted" sits close to words such as adversity, apprenticeship and condo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with looted
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Each story line focuses on a looted treasure. (8 words)
Community members also allegedly looted some of the medicine from the truck. (12 words)
A store in Almaty smashed and looted amid the protests in January 2022. (13 words)
The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilos of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners. (42 words)
He alleged that the governors and the leadership of the APC were not working to protect the interest of Nigerians but to be able to deploy their looted funds to compromise the elections through massive vote buying. (37 words)
Hyderabad police have nabbed members of an inter-state dacoity gang which looted 17 gold coins worth Rs 60 lakh from a gold ornaments melting unit in Secunderabad by posing as Income Tax officials three days ago. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Police said they were mounting these roadblocks to search for goods looted in the just ended violence that saw shops being looted.
The accused had mortgaged eight looted gold jewelleries in Manappurani Finance Ltd. in Khurda were detected along with one looted gold chain recovered.
The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilos of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners.
Affirming that the people were supreme in a democracy, Ms. Vadra said the BJP government at the Centre had looted the poor to help Mr. Modi’s billionaire industrialist friends.
And the companies that caused the harm are sitting on billions upon billions of dollars just waiting to be looted.
A store in Almaty smashed and looted amid the protests in January 2022.
A woman holds a bay next to some looted goods after Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
Community members also allegedly looted some of the medicine from the truck.
Complainant Aftab had alleged that a mob of rioters had looted his shop and set some items on fire.
Each story line focuses on a looted treasure.
For nations whose art was looted, the issue became one of national identity and culture.
Had a ruthless army of barbarians pillaged and looted the town overnight of its wealth, as well as health, the economic and environmental damage inflicted by the preventable Norfolk Southern derailment would still be greater.
Hanna Skrypka, deputy director of the Kherson Art Museum, in an empty storage room looted by Russian forces.
He alleged that the governors and the leadership of the APC were not working to protect the interest of Nigerians but to be able to deploy their looted funds to compromise the elections through massive vote buying.
Hyderabad police have nabbed members of an inter-state dacoity gang which looted 17 gold coins worth Rs 60 lakh from a gold ornaments melting unit in Secunderabad by posing as Income Tax officials three days ago.
In addition, the druids have powerful equipment that can be looted after defeating them, bolstering the party's gear.
In November 2018, U.S federal prosecutors indicted him on charges of wire fraud conspiracy and other crimes related to alleged trafficking in stolen and looted Cambodian antiquities.
In the early days of the war, Ukrainian art experts feared that their best works might be looted.
Many of the community’s temples were burnt down and desecrated, their properties were looted, many lands and houses were grabbed.
Many shops were also looted and gunfire exchanges took place between security forces and gang members.
Common combinations with looted
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- looted and 35×
- and looted 22×
- were looted 18×
- was looted 15×
- been looted 13×
- looted from 12×
- looted in 11×
- looted the 11×
- looted by 10×
- be looted 9×