loot - use in sentences

Object

  • antiquity: None of the items displayed at a news conference were priceless antiquities looted from Iraqi museums.
  • treasure: Once a notorious base used by pirates, Cocos is reputed to still hold vast fortunes of looted treasure hidden within its forests.
  • artifact: Their involvement helps make the looted artifacts more saleable.
  • gold: Minister Stucki, the head of the Swiss delegation, also refuted the validity of the concept of looted gold.
  • fragment: The present location of most of the looted Assyrian fragments is unknown.
  • object: Many looted objects have turned up in this city.

Converse of object

  • steal: Then three burglars turn up, expecting no one there to stop them stealing the loot.
  • get: What an odd half hour as we waited for him to get the loot.
  • take: The outlaws walk into town, rob the bank and take the loot to the train station to win.
  • have: I have the loot to go out, I just don't want to.
  • bury: In either case it appears to have seemed sensible to bury the loot.

Adjective modifier

  • Nazi: He knew of several stashes of Nazi loot, hidden at various locations.

Modifies a noun

  • bag: Gone are the days of the plastic loot bags!

Modifying Another Word

  • systematically: Many Iron Age sites have been systematically looted for small items of saleable jewelry.
  • again: Of the game my family at looted again quot on the.
  • then: With 1,400 men he defeated the garrison of 2,600 in pitched battle outside the city, which he then looted.
  • also: She also looted his special time of the night.
  • not: The Vikings would not loot the city or otherwise damage it.
  • reportedly: To further terrorize ethnic Albanians, Serbs reportedly looted and burned their homes and shops throughout the town.

Preposition: from

  • site: The pieces, estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars, were looted from Egyptian archeological sites in the spring.

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