(v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.
(n.) An excursion for plundering.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Di Matteo has made bold selections before, not least when he asked Ramires to play on the left of midfield against Barcelona in an attempt to nullify the threat posed by the marauding Daniel Alves down the flank.
(2) Despite the marauding excellence of the captain, Philip Lahm, and the reflexes and calmed poise of the goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Germany's weakness is defence.
(3) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(4) Only seconds before, he had bailed out the left-back José Holebas after another marauding Antonio run.
(5) As the distinguished Guardian editor CP Scott said: “Comment is free but facts are sacred.” Hammond actually used the word “marauding” when commenting about those “desperate” migrants whom we have seen on television threatening safety and security near the Channel Tunnel.
(6) These are the people some of our political leaders have in mind when they talk of swarms , plagues and marauders.
(7) His parents were immigrants from Europe - his Jewish father escaped the Nazis, his Polish mother escaped the marauding Russians after they pushed back from Germany.
(8) 1.35pm GMT 4 mins: This has been a pretty passive start by Newcastle and Jack Wilshere has already had two opportunities to maraud forward and he nearly wins a corner on the second occasion.
(9) There was a note of desperation from the Indonesian foreign affairs minister, Retno Maraud , when she was interviewed just before last month’s Bali round of regional ministers on how to manage the movement of the human tide.
(10) Soldiers went on looting sprees, and 1 victim of their marauding became a 12-year old boy who got shot for refusing to part with his bike.
(11) Its exhibition on the marauding Scandinavians will showcase the new gallery in the most spectacular way – with a real longship.
(12) On the other is Isis, a marauding force of global jihadists, who have claimed a homeland from the ruins of the once feared police states of Iraq and Syria.
(13) Luke Harding was the Guardian's correspondent in India at the time: at one village, he reported that policemen actively co-ordinated the attacks, accompanying marauders as they torched fields and shooting at the Muslim farmers who tried to stop them.
(14) Mark Noble had darted through the centre and his pass ricocheted off Chester and Tom Huddlestone before the ball reached the marauding Mohamed Diamé in front of goal, the Senegalese controlling it with his arm as he careered forward and poked his shot over the advancing goalkeeper.
(15) Ariel was barely a year old when Bedouin marauders threatened their home.
(16) Aran Khanna’s app – called Marauder’s Map in tribute to the Harry Potter books – showed that users of Facebook Messenger could pinpoint the exact locations of people they were talking to.
(17) It was the first of two such marauding first-half runs from the industrious midfielder and 10 minutes later he did much the same again.
(18) The Ivorian had a couple of marauding forward runs but defensively he looked like he was treading water and his substitution said it all.
(19) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
(20) The statement said there was no evidence that the police had caused Ian's sudden and untimely death and that he had been caught in a crowd of marauding protesters.
Plunder
Definition:
(v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
(v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
(n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
(n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
(n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
(2) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
(3) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
(4) But as more end up empty-handed and black market prices soar, plundering is rising in Venezuela , an Opec nation that was already one of the world’s most violent countries.
(5) The French are no longer colonisers, or imperialists, or even plundering racists.
(6) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
(7) Most newspapers were excoriating, for instance, about the failure of the City's self-regulating bodies to blow the whistle on Robert Maxwell's plunder of the Mirror pension fund .
(8) Kiir has accused government officials of plundering at least $4bn (£2.6bn) from state coffers over seven years.
(9) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(10) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
(11) Mila D Aguilar , 67, poet, Quezon City Facebook Twitter Pinterest Krip Yuson ‘Many Filipinos still bear the scars of his plundering’ He should definitely not have been buried in the LNMB.
(12) With billions of dollars worth of assets of Muammar Gaddafi frozen by the UN and member countries, and other legal moves to recover the wealth of deposed autocrats such as Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the drive to seize billions plundered by corrupt leaders has never been higher.
(13) Yet Joe Ledley’s handball might have earned United a penalty of their own after the interval before Ibrahimovic plundered the winner the visitors’ dominance merited .
(14) Damien Duff was sharp and Robbie Keane looked in the mood to plunder.
(15) In the past few years they had seen Ben Ali and his family and friends become extremely rich by plundering the nation.
(16) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
(17) Field’s parliamentary investigation concluded that BHS had been systematically plundered.
(18) The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he was not detected.
(19) For my part – plundering singles by Artful Dodger, by Semisonic – I have a memory of actually looking over my shoulder.
(20) The question is, why haven't the moon's resources been thoroughly plundered by now?