(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.
Raid
Definition:
(n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
(n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
(v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.
Example Sentences:
(1) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(2) It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.
(3) The raids began a year ago in Marylebone, but they have recently spread to the West End.
(4) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(5) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
(6) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(7) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
(8) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(9) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(10) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
(11) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
(12) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
(13) During their detention by Pakistani authorities the women, one of whom was wounded in the Abbottabad raid, were interviewed by American intelligence agencies.
(14) Police arrested her in September in a raid on a club on Iracema beach, a crowded neighbourhood packed with lively restaurants, hotels and bars.
(15) The Greek finance ministry's financial crimes unit conducted the raids, and says it has many other groups in its sights.
(16) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(17) The abduction early Thursday comes amid anger among Libya's powerful Islamic militant groups over the US special forces raid on Saturday that seized a Libyan al-Qaida suspect known as Abu Anas al-Libi.
(18) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
(19) At least that seemed to be the lesson last week when the autumn statement confirmed a further £600m raid on the troubled universal credit – a move that didn't cause a ripple.
(20) The Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood has indeed criticised the Saudi air raids in Yemen in parliament, and called on Riyadh to be quicker to establish public inquiries into its errors.