On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Plundered. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as looted or pillaged and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Plundered in a sentence
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Plundered meaning
simple past and past participle of plunder
Using Plundered
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of plunder
- Useful related words include: looted, pillaged, ransacked, empty.
- In the example corpus, plundered often appears in combinations such as: plundered the, and plundered, plundered and.
Context around Plundered
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plundered
- In this selection, "plundered" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pillaged, west, rioters, natural, raped and barrow stand out and add context to how "plundered" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a previously plundered barrow or and american artifacts plundered from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plundered" sits close to words such as abelian, acer and agrippina, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plundered
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If they had succeeded, they could have plundered natural resources again. (11 words)
Roughly 3,000 hectares of land is plundered annually, at the current level of production. (15 words)
It had a crushing debt of R28 billion and had been run and plundered into the ground. (17 words)
It may be just as well: China is lagging far behind its targets to buy farm and energy products from the United States, and its ability to make good on those promises is questionable (the deal was made before the pandemic plundered the global economy). (45 words)
The Nazis used the wealth they plundered from the countries they conquered—not to mention armies of enslaved laborers they captured—to construct defensive fortifications that remain among the largest, most robust military entrenchments ever built. (36 words)
Few traces remain of the institute, known in German as the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, and its storied bookshelves: The Nazis shuttered the Hochschule, killed many of its members and plundered its library. (35 words)
Imagine the money that would have been looted since January 2024 if N13 billion was plundered in only one month! (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
If they had succeeded, they could have plundered natural resources again.
It was observed being plundered by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a spiral-shaped galaxy.
Nevertheless, a different kind of transmogrification occurs: her bruised and bloody female body becomes a metaphor for the land she traverses – pillaged, plundered, raped and renamed.
She claimed the West plundered the natural resources of these countries and only provided weak economic development and public administration.
Thousands of displaced people were forced to take shelter in temporary camps as scores of houses were plundered and set ablaze.
Also on Thursday, Jake Turton, 38, of Darfield, Barnsley, admitted driving a pick-up truck loaded with debris to the disorder at the hotel which rioters plundered for weapons to throw at police.
Although there is little other evidence about his life, it was believed that Guthlac created his hermitage from a previously plundered barrow, or burial mound.
Although traditionally associated with gods and gurus, they have been vandalised by people, who plundered them for land, resources and knowledge.
By then Goldsworthy was in full flight, smashing two of his sixes in the same Holland over as Somerset plundered 119 off the last ten overs of their innings.
Few traces remain of the institute, known in German as the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, and its storied bookshelves: The Nazis shuttered the Hochschule, killed many of its members and plundered its library.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He said the lack of accountability in the sector means that Cambodia’s natural resources, and the profits generated from them, will be plundered with no benefit to the government or the public.
Imagine the money that would have been looted since January 2024 if N13 billion was plundered in only one month!
Mr. Schaming said he was proud of his work there, from lobbying for gallery upgrades to repatriating Native American artifacts plundered from the graves of New York’s tribal nations.
The luxury brand items – the Louboutin shoes, the Louis Vuitton bags, the Hermes scarves – bought using funds plundered from the state, were worthless to the fleeing dictator and his wife.
The Nazis used the wealth they plundered from the countries they conquered—not to mention armies of enslaved laborers they captured—to construct defensive fortifications that remain among the largest, most robust military entrenchments ever built.
It had a crushing debt of R28 billion and had been run and plundered into the ground.
It may be just as well: China is lagging far behind its targets to buy farm and energy products from the United States, and its ability to make good on those promises is questionable (the deal was made before the pandemic plundered the global economy).
McDermott plundered a match-winning 89 not out from 55 balls on Saturday, his classy knock featuring seven boundaries and five sixes.
Roughly 3,000 hectares of land is plundered annually, at the current level of production.
Common combinations with plundered
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: