Sentences with 'sacking'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sacking and other words derived from it.
• « By 400 BCE, groups of Celts began to make further inroads into "civilised" lands, sacking Rome itself in 387 BCE and pushing into the Hellenistic lands of Macedonia, Greece and Anatolia. »
• « With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can see the arrival of the Huns as the beginning of a "domino effect" in which various groups were pushed into Roman territory, with the sacking of Rome only one disaster of many for the Empire. »
• « Only two years after the defeat of the Huns, the Vandals sailed from Africa in 455 and again sacked Rome. This sacking, despite occurring with relatively little carnage, led to the word "Vandal" being used to refer to a malicious destroyer of property. »
• « The Spanish troops, however, were no longer regularly paid by the crown and rebelled, sacking several Dutch cities that had been loyal to Spain, including Brussels, Ghent, and especially Antwerp. »