RANSACK in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for RANSACK, such as:
1. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house.
2. I ransacked it, but couldn't find anything else.
3. They'll ransack that castle, he remarked with evident approval.
4. They worried over that awhile, and ransacked all around for it.
5. I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
2. I ransacked it, but couldn't find anything else.
3. They'll ransack that castle, he remarked with evident approval.
4. They worried over that awhile, and ransacked all around for it.
5. I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
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Meanings and Examples of RANSACK
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ransack
v. steal goods; take as spoils
v. search thoroughly
Classic Sentence:
1 They'll ransack that castle, he remarked with evident approval.
2 I ransacked it, but couldn't find anything else.
3 They worried over that awhile, and ransacked all around for it.
4 Well, Sister Phelps, I've ransacked that-air cabin over, an I b'lieve the nigger was crazy.
5 I searched, ransacked, counted, calculated a thousand and a thousand times the income and expenditure of the family for three hundred years.
6 I hear this Bertha Coutts besieges Mellors in his mother's house, having ransacked the cottage and the hut.
7 Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house.
8 The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight.
9 The thieves ransacked the library and got very little for their pains.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
10 He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
11 She took him by the hand, and without taking her eyes off him, gazed at him while she ransacked her mind for the words to say that would keep him.
12 I judged I better hide it outside of the house somewheres, because if they missed it they would give the house a good ransacking: I knowed that very well.
13 By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally collected five francs sixteen sous.
Example Sentence:
1 We might do what we pleased; ransack her desk and her workbox, and turn her drawers inside out; and she was so good-natured, she would give us anything we asked for.
2 I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.