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Example sentences for "looting"

Lexicographically close words:
loot; looted; lootenant; looters; looth; lope; loped; loping; lopped; lopping
  1. PS) Moreover this looting was glorified by Rosenberg.

  2. In the Latvian Republic destruction of the agriculture by the looting of all stock, machinery, and produce.

  3. If the evidence in this case showed no looting except of that sort, I certainly would ask no conviction of these defendants for it.

  4. But we will show you that looting was not due to the lack of discipline or to the ordinary weaknesses of human nature.

  5. Looting and destruction of works of art: The museums of Nantes, Nancy, Old-Marseilles were looted.

  6. Mobs of SA men roamed the streets, beating up, looting and even killing persons.

  7. Destruction of agriculture, enslavement of peasants, and looting of stock and produce in Lithuania.

  8. Not only was there a purpose to debilitate and demoralize the economy of Germany’s neighbors for the purpose of destroying their competitive position, but there was looting and pilfering on an unprecedented scale.

  9. I sent him off to bring up the Levies, who were looting the arms and securing the prisoners from the sangars.

  10. Before I had hardly got into the courtyard they had found the grain store, and were looting it.

  11. We declare we cannot participate in the looting war of the Allies nor a looting peace.

  12. It is remarkable and noteworthy that German writers charge the French armies with looting and destruction in their own country.

  13. Probably in spite of the strictness of the anti-looting orders some “curio collecting” was indulged in by our men, and that not always with the willing consent of the Chinese.

  14. He found on arrival at Allahabad that the mutineers had grown tired of looting and killing, in fact, the 6th had marched out of the town with drums beating.

  15. The mutineers, after looting and wrecking the cantonments, proceeded in a body to the great prison, where they easily overpowered the guards and forced an entrance.

  16. Looting had been prohibited from the first, and stringent orders given for the good treatment of the inhabitants.

  17. No looting was allowed among them, and very few outrages indeed were committed by them on the unfortunate peasantry.

  18. The portion of the town held by the Russians was infinitely the worst; there the looting had been universal, and the atrocities committed upon the unfortunate inhabitants beyond description.

  19. The sun had not yet risen, but the narrow streets were filled with the scum of the town, who, invisible the day before, had now returned in numbers, bent on looting the houses of their more wealthy countrymen who had forsaken them.

  20. Everything from murdering and robbing a peddler to looting the banks at Crater and Lava was laid to the Catrockers.

  21. He nodded understandingly when Bud warned him that the looting was a matter of hearsay on his part, and departed with an awkward compliment to Mrs. Jim about hoping that the baby was going to look like her.

  22. Always look upon looting as a disgraceful act.

  23. And these jumps had not been the result of normal research; they had come from the looting of derelict spaceships wrecked on his world in the far past.

  24. Once in just such a cabin he had meddled and, in activating a long silent installation, had called the attention of the Baldies to their wrecked ship, to the Terrans looting it.

  25. There was a good deal of promiscuous looting by his troops, and still more by camp followers and by the Negroes who, somewhat to his annoyance, attached themselves to his columns.

  26. This led to much casual looting by men with arms in their hands but nowhere to turn for a meal, and the trouble culminated in a rebellion raised in New England by an old soldier of the Continental Army called Shay.

  27. The looting went on persistently and on a scale almost unthinkable.

  28. It may not have been wrecked on this island, and those things may have been the share of one of the canoes from here that assisted in looting her; at any rate, we have no proof that the vessel was boarded and captured.

  29. But such propagandist zeal as animated the Directorate did not prevent the looting of the treasures of the liberated peoples to relieve the financial embarrassment of the French Government.

  30. They had gambled deeply in the prospective looting of Manchuria and China, and they would suffer no withdrawal.

  31. They secured the mastery of the sea and captured and pillaged Rome (455), which had recovered very imperfectly from her capture and looting by Alaric half a century earlier.

  32. It was inevitable that as the two sorts of life, the agricultural and the nomadic differentiated, a certain amount of looting and trading should develop between the two.

  33. The Pope took refuge in the Castle of St. Angelo while the looting and slaughter went on.

  34. Beowulf, which is at least a thousand years later than the Iliad, is also interesting because one of the main adventures in it is the looting of the treasures of a barrow already ancient in those days.

  35. The Greek Emperor was killed, and there was much looting and massacre.

  36. The looting and burning of palaces and an occasional massacre did not shock the folk of the Roman underworld as it shocked the wealthy and cultured people to whom we owe such accounts as we have of the breaking down of the imperial system.

  37. It was Innocent who had preached a cruel crusade against the heretics in the south of France, a crusade that presently became a looting expedition beyond his control.

  38. They did not migrate into India; they went to and fro, looting in India and returning with their loot to their own country, just as later the Huns established themselves in the great plain of the Danube and raided all Europe.

  39. The looting has been awful; beautiful homes broken up, and articles of clothing, household linen, pictures, and furniture smashed to atoms and trodden under foot.

  40. We hadn’t long to wait, and a small party of German infantry came in--on a looting expedition, likely.

  41. He was an aged man, and remained quietly in or near his home while the soldiers were busy in looting and destroying.

  42. The looting section picked up considerable plunder from the abandoned homes along the way, evidently without protest from the commander.

  43. He could also use the roubles in buying furs and skins of the Russians who still had the same saved from the looting Bolsheviki.

  44. During this fight, or rather after it, the Canadians taught our boys their first lesson in looting the persons of the dead.

  45. The White Guards gritted their teeth at the looting Reds and proudly accepted their new commander's motto: White Guards for the front; Americans for the city and the lines of communication.

  46. Later on looting took a new form different from that at first shown and was practiced by a different class of people.

  47. Irish Nationalists, at meeting in London, take pledge to avenge Belgium; many arrests for the looting of German shops.

  48. Looting barred in Antwerp; survey of conditions shows many men eager to enlist.

  49. The murderers had obviously been too busy looting to hear the approach of the party and so secure their own safety in time.

  50. For a number of years, rather indiscriminate looting by pothunters and others interested in these antiquities continued sporadically.

  51. The profuse remains caused extensive digging and looting for about a decade.

  52. Rumour says the steamers have been looting Shendy (I hope that it will be remembered none of the Egyptian soldiers, officers, or Pashas are to come up here again).

  53. Even to embarrass her financially by looting her would recoil on ourselves, as she is one of our commercial customers and one of our most frequently visited neighbors.

  54. But if the penalty of looting be thus spared, the Germans can hardly complain if they are themselves held to ransom when the fortunes of war go against them.

  55. In reckoning the forces of revolution, the joy of the mob in looting must not be forgotten.

  56. The real harm was not done on the battlefield, where the carnage was incredibly small, but in the raids and looting of town and country by the professional assassins who filled the ranks of the hireling troops.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assault; attack; banditry; battering; depredation; foray; killing; looting; marauding; massacre; onslaught; pillage; pillaging; plunder; plundering; predacious; predatory; raid; rapacity; rape; ravage; ravishment; riot; rioting; robbery; sack; sacking; slaughter; spoliation; unruliness; violation