(n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.
(v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(2) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(4) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
(5) We want the painting back, with the admission that it was looted art,” he said.
(6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(7) The primary need of the people is not western-style educational patronage, but an end to the arms trade and multinational looting of resources.
(8) Neither do we accept the owner could not have known it was looted.
(9) They just hear bullets and are on the loose running anywhere, looting, raping and doing anything.
(10) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(11) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
(12) And while large stores were targeted, some smaller shops had not escaped the looting.
(13) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
(14) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(15) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
(16) Photograph: Dr Oetker “This is an outstanding example of a private company doing the right thing with regards to Nazi-looted art and sets a standard of best practice in this field,” he said.
(17) Belgium was arguably the cruellest of all colonisers, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko looted the nation's wealth for 32 years, then a civil war sparked by genocide in neighbouring Rwanda left more than 4 million people dead and brought about the biggest peacekeeping operation in UN history.
(18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
(19) The looted art trove may help to shed light on one of the more obscure chapters in Nazi Germany's history.
(20) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
Scoop
Definition:
(n.) A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
(n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
(n.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
(n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
(n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
(n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
(n.) To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
(n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
(n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
Example Sentences:
(1) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
(2) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
(3) Latino Review has a track record of attention-grabbing scoops, though its accuracy has occasionally been called into question.
(4) Scoop some of the flour mixture over the top of each piece and press down with the back of your hand, making sure it's completely coated.
(5) Murdoch MacLennan, the Telegraph Media Group chief executive, praised staff and the titles' editor-in-chief, Will Lewis: "Will Lewis and his team have done a brilliant job with the MPs' expenses scoop.
(6) Anderson Fernandes, 22, appeared before magistrates in Manchester charged with burglary after he took two scoops of coffee ice-cream and a cone from Patisserie Valerie in the city centre.
(7) In the case of Edmondson's ex-colleague Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor, some of those scoops involved paying the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to hack into phone messages left on mobile phones belonging to public figures.
(8) And this as we learn that GCHQ, in all its technological majesty, can scoop up every last word that passes through those sleek cables beneath the Atlantic, everything we say and every last key that our fingers stroke.
(9) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
(10) If, as seems probable, the Conservative party now scoops up most of the support that used to go to Farage, what impact will that have on the broader cause of Conservatism?
(11) ‘Dysfunctional’ ABC management slammed Trevor Bormann, last year’s Walkley winner for Foreign Correspondent’s “Prisoner X” scoop, has dumped a bucket on ABC news management on the way out the door.
(12) But her huge payout has drawn comparisons to the rewards Wall Street bankers have scooped as markets collapse.
(13) But by exaggerating the point, Parker swerves around another truth – that the UK's intelligence agencies are already scooping up more material than ever before, and GCHQ has an ambition to go further.
(14) Yaya Toure picked him out with a forensic, scooped pass that he played with the outside of his right boot and Bony watched it drop before trying to score with an overhead kick.
(15) The incidence of obstructions, as registered by impediments to exhalation and by increases in peak inspiratory pressure, was significantly less frequent with the modified device, since the tongue could be "scooped" to a ventro-caudal direction if necessary.
(16) Fire crews typically rely on helicopters scooping up 1,500-litre buckets of water from ponds and streams to put out flames.
(17) Together they set out to modernise Radio 2, reasoning that as Radio 1 shed its "Smashie and Nicey" middle-of-the-road image to target youth in the 1990s, Radio 2 had to move and scoop up disenfranchised adults aged in their late thirties and above.
(18) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(19) ITV News' coverage of the Woolwich attack, including its shocking exclusive cameraphone footage of one of Lee Rigby's killers shot minutes after he was murdered, won the home news coverage and scoop of the year awards; while News at Ten co-anchor Mark Austin was named national presenter of the year.
(20) The studio has refused to comment on Latino Review's Justice League scoop.