Explore Pillaging through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like plundering or pillage. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pillaging meaning
present participle and gerund of pillage
Synonyms of Pillaging
Using Pillaging
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of pillage
- Useful related words include: plundering, pillage, aggression, hostility.
- In the example corpus, pillaging often appears in combinations such as: and pillaging, pillaging and, pillaging of.
Context around Pillaging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pillaging
- In this selection, "pillaging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, corruption, continue, unprecedented, hundred, bouchard and main stand out and add context to how "pillaging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an unprecedented pillaging and canadiens continue pillaging bouchard s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pillaging" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pillaging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That security was generally against livestock from pillaging the crops. (10 words)
These groups carry out various forms of violence, from pillaging to religiously motivated attacks. (14 words)
The former was a genocidal invader who set the stage for the pillaging of an entire continent. (17 words)
KL Rahul’s pillaging hundred, the fastest by an Indian in World Cup, and Shreyas Iyer’s doubts-allaying 128 lit up the Diwali day as India mowed down Netherlands by 160 runs here Sunday, registering their ninth consecutive victory in the showpiece. (43 words)
A government of working people and poor farmers, implementing socialist policies, would put an end to the pillaging of the economy and the ocean of misery it brings along, and disarm the counter-revolution both politically and militarily. (38 words)
The pope asked Mozambicans to be vigilant against pillaging and unethical exploitation of natural resources “driven by a greed generally not cultivated even by the inhabitants of these lands, nor motivated by the common good of your people”. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
KL Rahul’s pillaging hundred, the fastest by an Indian in World Cup, and Shreyas Iyer’s doubts-allaying 128 lit up the Diwali day as India mowed down Netherlands by 160 runs here Sunday, registering their ninth consecutive victory in the showpiece.
That security was generally against livestock from pillaging the crops.
The group said the willful obstruction or arbitrary restriction of humanitarian aid violates international humanitarian law, while the pillaging and attacks on civilians and health care workers constitute war crimes.
After hours of pillaging and slaving over the sweets of Brainerd, Minnesota, we would pour out our buckets in the living room.
And then, give a couple of years, the reports of corruption, pillaging, and squandering of money will surface once more.
But if the Canadiens continue pillaging Bouchard’s roster, he and his players again will be faced with an early spring.
Corporations that touted neoliberal government deregulation are coming to the state and federal coffers with begging bowls, after an unprecedented pillaging.
Looks like England is going after the carefree, fun-loving Vikings, tired of their raiding and pillaging and wild hairstyles.
People will see how the super-rich Wall Steeters once again cheated the rest of us while pillaging Main Street.
The former was a genocidal invader who set the stage for the pillaging of an entire continent.
Yet half a century later came the Gilded Age, a period like our own — of robber barons, widespread corruption, mutual mistrust, political scandal, exploitation of wageworkers and pillaging of the natural environment.
A government of working people and poor farmers, implementing socialist policies, would put an end to the pillaging of the economy and the ocean of misery it brings along, and disarm the counter-revolution both politically and militarily.
Jaromir Chvastek, 65, and Tomas Malir, 56, who form part of a syndicate group pillaging succulent plants in the Western Cape and Northern Cape were arrested after over 900 protected plant species were found in their possession.
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.
People were fed up with the corruption, impunity, and violence — decades of loss of rights, pillaging and destruction of the nation’s wealth and public enterprises.
The pope asked Mozambicans to be vigilant against pillaging and unethical exploitation of natural resources “driven by a greed generally not cultivated even by the inhabitants of these lands, nor motivated by the common good of your people”.
These groups carry out various forms of violence, from pillaging to religiously motivated attacks.
They live ostentatious life which can only be sustained through corruption and pillaging of the common patrimony.
And if the progenitors of their (ill-gotten) fortunes were too busy raping and pillaging, they at least educated their offspring to be hoity-toity.
Huh, so the competition is based on men pillaging and forcing women into an unwanted sexual relationship.
Common combinations with pillaging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: