7 sentences with 'plundering'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plundering and other words derived from it.
• « The Macedonian army was composed of free citizens who demanded payment after each campaign, payment that could only be obtained by plundering defeated enemies. »
• « Over the next fifty years, various groups of Germanic invaders roamed Europe, plundering and, soon, settling down to occupy territory that had only recently been part of the Roman Empire. Most of these groups soon established kingdoms of their own. »
• « In 844 more than 150 ships sailed up the River Garonne in southern France, plundering settlements along the way. »
• « In 881, the Great Fleet sacked present-day Holland, raiding inland to Charlemagne's capital, Aachen, and plundering it. »
• « The Mongols established a kingdom known as Il-Khanate in Persia in 1256, but it was not until 1295 that the Mongol ruler Ghazan, the first to convert to Islam, shifted Mongol priorities from plundering expeditions to more conventional government and taxation. »
• « The Turks were driven by two motivations: the tradition of warfare against non-Muslims, and a direct interest in plundering defeated enemies. »
• « In computer terms, those curly-stranded molecules (let's call them RNA) were a programme whose instructions commanded the copying of the same programme by plundering the environment. Since then, life has become more complex while still obeying this definition. »