pillaging in English
During the first two nights of pillaging the Capital City, over half a million people were killed.
Use "pillaging" in a sentence
1. Those pillaging you will be pillaged,
2. Plenty of villages ripe for pillaging.
3. They were reveling, pillaging town after town.
4. Rape, pillaging its noble people.
5. This is the share of those pillaging us
6. Iberian warfare was endemic and based on intertribal raiding and pillaging.
7. The Rus' launched their first attack against Constantinople in 860, pillaging the suburbs of the city.
8. Marching through Raetia and the Alps unhindered, they entered northern Italy and began pillaging the area.
9. Booty is treasure — money, jewels, and the like — obtained by criminal means, especially plundering or pillaging
10. Also in 1205, the Mongols began their first invasion of the Western Xia, pillaging and burning many outlying villages and cities.
11. Decorations in their own great palaces showed them pillaging, burning, and destroying in one country after another.
12. Marske was amerced 20 marks for its part in the pillaging of a Norwegian vessel in 1180.
13. He also gathered the local agrarian rebels to fall under his command in pillaging the Sui governmental grazing ranches.
14. He was told that the townsfolk had done this because they were angry about the pillaging by the soldiers when they embarked.
15. It was soon evident that the army had a serious discipline problem, with soldiers regularly pillaging the area around their nightly camps.
16. Those Barbarians — back in ancient times they were always invading and pillaging and generally unleashing their fury on the more "civilized" Greeks and Romans.
17. Alaric was innovative in blackmailing Greek towns to pay him off, rather than pillaging them, so he could blackmail them again later, but this book never mentions it
18. Athaliah’s unbridled ambition to be sole ruler of Judah resulted not only in the neglecting of the temple but also in the pillaging of it.
19. Although the first reports , cited above , of looting of the national museum turned out to be exaggerated , the Iraqi pillaging of their own patrimony continued apace over a month later .
20. Examples of Crimes include intentionally killing civilians or prisoners, torturing, destroying civilian property, taking hostages, performing a perfidy, raping, using child soldiers, pillaging, declaring that no quarter will be given, and seriously violating the
21. 1400, also brigaunt, "lightly armed irregular foot-soldier," from Old French Brigand (14c.), from Italian brigante "trooper, skirmisher, foot soldier," from brigare "to brawl, fight" (see brigade).Sense of "robber, freebooter, one who lives by pillaging" is earlier in English (late 14c.), reflecting the lack of distinction between professional mercenary armies and armed