Sentence example with the word 'depredation'

depredation

banditry, carnage, despoilment, disorganization, havoc, perdition, raiding, ravages, robbery, slaughter, wrack

Definition n. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

Last update: July 13, 2016


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Phelim and his followers committed much depredation in Ulster on the pretext of reducing the Scots; and he attempted without success to take Drogheda, being compelled by Ormonde to raise the siege in April 1642.   [Please select]

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From that period, the scourge of Norman depredation became gradually less felt.   [Please select]

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He believed they were in hiding, probably being guilty of some depredation in another locality.   [Please select]

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These form objects of traffic or objects of depredation, and in this way pass from tribe to tribe over great tracts of country.   [Please select]

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At home, the hour's burning question was that of English and Spanish depredation at sea, attack upon neutral ships, confiscation and impressment of American sailors.   [Please select]

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