7 sentences with 'plunder'

Example sentences and phrases with the word plunder and other words derived from it.

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« The pirate ship was approaching the coast, ready to plunder the nearby village. »

plunder: The pirate ship was approaching the coast, ready to plunder the nearby village.
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« Almost without exception, the economics of imperialism can be described as "economies of plunder". »
« By 1256 the Seljuk territories had been crushed by the Mongols and a period of decades of brutal exploitation and plunder ensued. »
« English kings and knights kept the war going because it was a way to enrich themselves - they would arrive in France with a moderately large force of armed men to plunder. »
« Despite the loss of the Persian navy, Xerxes' army was able to march easily through Greece and plunder several polis and farmlands; it even sacked Athens itself, which had been evacuated earlier. »
« In the early years of the Viking period they tended to attack in small groups, relying on speed and stealth to plunder monasteries and settlements. As the decades passed, raiding bands gave way to large-scale invasion forces, numbering hundreds of ships and thousands of warriors. »
« Napoleon's tendency to plunder occupied territories to enrich the French led many of his subjects to recognise the hypocrisy of his 'egalitarian' empire and, in the absence of their former kings, they began to see themselves as Germans and Italians and Spaniards rather than simply subjects of a king. »

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