Sentence example with the word 'despoiled'

despoiled

Definition adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence

Last update: August 15, 2015


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But in 1570 the island was taken by the Turks; and Antonio Davila, the father of the historian, had to leave it, despoiled of all he possessed.   [Please select]

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Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner.   [Please select]

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The judge recognized it as the one of which he had despoiled Hannibal.   [Please select]

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It was to hurl the brutes back from the fair fields they had ravaged and despoiled.   [Please select]

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The place looked all at once gaunt and desolate and despoiled.   [Please select]

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A sum of money was raised for the despoiled foreigners.   [Please select]

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Tarzan's brow clouded as he discovered that he had been despoiled.   [Please select]

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The eagles of the sea despoiled the wolves of the main of their ill-got gains.   [Please select]

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He offered to restore the factory, and to give compensation to those whom he had despoiled.   [Please select]

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You are rich and powerful, we despoiled and struggling beneath a weight we can lift and displace if given a few short years in which to grow and gather strength.   [Please select]

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Despoiled, but safe, the guillemot rattled away "for another cast"; but the foe settled, riding lightly on the lift and fall of the bottle-green waves.   [Please select]

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