Plundering is an English word with synonyms like acquisitive or pillage. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Plundering in a sentence
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Plundering meaning
The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.
Synonyms of Plundering
Using Plundering
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.
- Useful related words include: acquisitive, pillage, pillaging, aggression.
- In the example corpus, plundering often appears in combinations such as: plundering the, plundering of, the plundering.
Context around Plundering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plundering
- In this selection, "plundering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, colonial, criminals, rashford, theory and post stand out and add context to how "plundering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include anglo criminals plundering the place and government were plundering the economy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plundering" sits close to words such as abbasid, abdicate and adapters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plundering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Utilized and used as a tool of plundering and eating its children. (12 words)
Corporations have encroached upon nature, plundering the natural wealth of our planet. (12 words)
Are police not meant to enforce the law rather than participate in plundering and fuelling rebellion? (16 words)
Blowing up the brainteaser video games like Myst and real-life escape games, the film has new fears to evoke — like surveillance and the corporate plundering of our most personal secrets — but it’s mostly about picking off the players one by one. (43 words)
And in order to prevent people from plundering any artefacts that are inside the sinkholes, once the project is completed, the caves’ interiors will be revealed in vibrant detail on a website, but their GPS locations won’t be published. (40 words)
Amid continuing violence at a local level, the United Nations team turned a spotlight on how members of the government were plundering the economy to line their own pockets with “catastrophic” consequences for the country’s humanitarian situation. (38 words)
Are police not meant to enforce the law rather than participate in plundering and fuelling rebellion? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
On Monday, Spoelstra was once again plundering his vocabulary after Butler led Miami’s scoring in a do-or-die game seven blowout of the Boston Celtics to seal a place in the NBA Finals.
There were plenty of Anglo criminals plundering the place, too — the legendary Irish-born crime boss Jack Powers among them.
During his televised announcement, Yoon also described the opposition as “shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces who are plundering the freedom and happiness of our citizens,” but he did not elaborate.
In truth, he is an entrenched collaborator of Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa’s regime, complicit in the plundering of Zimbabwe’s resources.
McCarthy spent two years at United, with Rashford plundering a career-best 30 goals in 2022/23 before a much more difficult campaign last season, when he scored only eight times.
One reason why critics might be leaning toward the plundering theory is because the height of the Sassoon’s business coincided with China’s “century of humiliation” from 1839 to 1945.
The other person makes a beeline for the fridge, plundering 20 kilograms of butter, Russian media reported.
Utilized and used as a tool of plundering and eating its children.
Amid continuing violence at a local level, the United Nations team turned a spotlight on how members of the government were plundering the economy to line their own pockets with “catastrophic” consequences for the country’s humanitarian situation.
Corporations have encroached upon nature, plundering the natural wealth of our planet.
Instead, he wants to tackle “King Leopold’s Ghost,” an epic about the colonial plundering of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo; Martin Scorsese has as a producer.
Lara was in smashing form, with the left-hander retiring hurt after plundering 30 runs off just 11 deliveries.
The Fed and the Davos elite depend upon the indoctrinated ignorance conveyed by government schooling to implement their relentless plundering of the people’s wealth.
They alleged plundering of their land by the militias, noting that illegal mining of tin was fast becoming the order of the day.
This poverty amidst plenty is rooted in the DRC’s colonial history, the neo-colonial plundering post-independence, dictatorships and war.
And in order to prevent people from plundering any artefacts that are inside the sinkholes, once the project is completed, the caves’ interiors will be revealed in vibrant detail on a website, but their GPS locations won’t be published.
Are police not meant to enforce the law rather than participate in plundering and fuelling rebellion?
Barrow has surrounded himself with folks, who had aided and abetted Jammeh in plundering our national treasury—more importantly the Central Bank of The Gambia.
Blowing up the brainteaser video games like Myst and real-life escape games, the film has new fears to evoke — like surveillance and the corporate plundering of our most personal secrets — but it’s mostly about picking off the players one by one.
Heck, I would rather we had a homosexual president who is truly serving the people than this hypocrite corrupt dictator who is plundering this country and running it down to a sh*thole country that it is.
Common combinations with plundering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- plundering the 12×
- plundering of 8×
- the plundering 6×
- plundering and 5×
- and plundering 5×
- of plundering 4×
- after plundering 3×
- in plundering 3×
- plundering his 2×
- are plundering 2×