How do you use Pillage in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like loot or plunder, plus the exact meaning.
Pillage meaning
To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
Synonyms of Pillage
Using Pillage
- The main meaning on this page is: To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- Useful related words include: loot, plunder, strip, reave.
- In the example corpus, pillage often appears in combinations such as: and pillage, pillage and, to pillage.
Context around Pillage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pillage
- In this selection, "pillage" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rape, plunder, cultural, trade, infidels and businesses stand out and add context to how "pillage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and cultural pillage that would and and the pillage of an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pillage" sits close to words such as abayomi, adoptees and adopter, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pillage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Tribune’s standard operating procedure is to rape, pillage and plunder. (12 words)
As its apex predators, they had every right to simply plunder, pillage, and loot — to exploit. (16 words)
They have not experienced racist ideology, misery and objects of pillage, to be disposed of their land. (17 words)
A turn to access journalism, Starkman argued, was what allowed modern-day robber barons to pillage the US economy to the extent that the housing bubble burst in 2007 and led to the Great Recession. (35 words)
Armed National Guard soldiers are patrolling the streets of Los Angeles, as the city begins cleaning up after a night of violence that saw demonstrators clash repeatedly with officers, torch police vehicles, and pillage businesses. (35 words)
Like I said, I was on this pillaging mission and we kind of went rapey and when I got done with the raping, all the good pillage was taken, so I grabbed Berticus here. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
But she also didn’t imagine that Russian soldiers would systematically torture, rape, pillage, and kill civilians, as they did in Bucha, Borodyanka, and the town of Izyum, some seventy miles from Kharkiv.
They have not experienced racist ideology, misery and objects of pillage, to be disposed of their land.
They show up where they're not wanted, take things from players, and pillage trade routes throughout the entire game.
Till date their militia kill and pillage infidels like they did 200 years ago except they now use bikes instead of horses and AK47s.
A turn to access journalism, Starkman argued, was what allowed modern-day robber barons to pillage the US economy to the extent that the housing bubble burst in 2007 and led to the Great Recession.
Tice did not spare Labour leader Keir Starmer, saying his party would bring "a catastrophic cocktail of economic incompetence and cultural pillage" that would be disastrous for Britain.
Armed National Guard soldiers are patrolling the streets of Los Angeles, as the city begins cleaning up after a night of violence that saw demonstrators clash repeatedly with officers, torch police vehicles, and pillage businesses.
As its apex predators, they had every right to simply plunder, pillage, and loot — to exploit.
In this course of this plunder, pillage, and wanton murder, the jihadis entered Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom.
Making matters worse, angry mobs began “besieging the commissary stores, destroying liquor, intent perhaps upon pillage, and swaying to and fro in whatever momentary passion possessed them,” reported a local newspaper editor.
Nugent-Griffiths’ story of anger and pain is one of hundreds in a broader narrative of pillage across Jamaica that costs farmers around $6 billion a year and mounting.
Strategies are in place to protect against Western superficialities, negative attitudes, cultural exploitation, pillage and plagiarism – which plagued great Aboriginal Australians like David Unaipon and Albert Namatjira.
Like I said, I was on this pillaging mission and we kind of went rapey and when I got done with the raping, all the good pillage was taken, so I grabbed Berticus here.
More specifically, in April 2005, Jones referred to Lebanese Muslims as “vermin” who “rape and pillage a nation that’s taken them in”.
William Dalrymple, is the author, most recently, of “The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence and the Pillage of an Empire.
For his part, Mr. Soualem reiterated that Algeria could not stand alone in fighting migratory flows, which were due to the past pillage and looting of Africa.
Much of the destruction was caused by gangs of “casseurs”, urban guerrillas determined to loot and pillage, some of whom were wearing gilets jaunes.
The Tribune’s standard operating procedure is to rape, pillage and plunder.
They were a tribe of mercenaries that decided to rape and pillage their way out of Egypt, onward and upward to several genocides.
This pillage caused that the illegally annexed territory amounts to about 70% of the territory of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Common combinations with pillage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and pillage 11×
- pillage and 7×
- to pillage 7×
- the pillage 4×
- pillage of 3×
- rape pillage 2×
- of pillage 2×
- pillage the 2×
- plunder pillage 2×