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pillage - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- town: The pillage of a town or place, even when taken by assault is prohibited CHAPTER II On spies Art.
- wealth: We will only try here to highlight some of them: ' Down with the pillage of French wealth!
- resource: Colonialism and the pillaging of resources of other people were some of its products.
Object
- country: For many commanders the war was profitable, enabling them to pillage the country 's resources or deal in illegal goods.
- town: Cyrus lets the army rape and pillage the town, yet he does restrain his men from total destruction.
- village: Armed by the Sudanese government, the Arab Janjaweed militias murder, rape, and pillage African villages with impunity.
- city: Or will the beast prevail and pillage the legendary city of its unimaginable riches?
- resource: The invasion of Iraq was made in order to pillage the resources of Iraq, particularly its oil wealth, and for strategic reasons.
Converse of object
- commit: The IMF is not a philanthropic entity - it presides over the pillage committed by the international bankers.
Adjective modifier
- systematic: Reports of systematic pillage and extortion got back to Paris and inspired the Consulate to find a more controllable alternative.
Modifying Another Word
- not: We must not pillage our children's tomorrow for our comforts today.
- even: You see atheists, who not content with insulting the gods, pillage even their temples.
- then: We then pillage what really should be private, in order to finance the common weal.
- mercilessly: To do so, you will need to navigate shrewdly, fight recklessly and pillage mercilessly.
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