Verb (used with object) : The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.    From Dictionary.com. 

It was said that the ship contained great wealth that had been pillaged along the coast of India, and the best that they had pillaged from the Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

The court also noted that Mr Reeves "pillaged" Waterloo for his own purposes, racking up hotel and restaurant bills on company credit cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference

Leaked emails, seen by the Herald Sun, reveal several senior officers are worried they can't adequately police suburban beats because their staff are being "pillaged" for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

In the dictator's final days the national bank was pillaged.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Taking Out The Cancer'] Reference

It is unnecessary to say that the town of Senlis was pillaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

Assuming that the tomb was desecrated and pillaged soon after the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

They pillaged Paris, Bordeaux, Orleans, and nearly every other city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Liberals pillaged when they discarded Free Trade, helped themselves to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Bands or parties of men, who pillaged and plundered wherever they came.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference

On the 25th of August, in the same commune, Mme. Morin's house was pillaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

We newcomers had no notion of how thoroughly and often the city had been pillaged for news.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference

"The downtown core has been burnt, looted, pillaged," said David Wimhurst, a U.N. spokesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Superpower's Dilemma] Reference

Do we really need another account of these little piggies who went to market-and pillaged it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street: A Greed Apart] Reference

Some offerings of a better and richer description were pillaged at the time of the Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference

In 1400 Timur pillaged it, and in 1517 it passed, with the rest of Syria, to the Ottoman dominion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

In 730 and 891 the Saracens invaded the island, pillaged the establishment, and massacred the monks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Two army doctors, wearing the brassards of the Red Cross, themselves pillaged the house of Mme. Binder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

At Brumetz, where the occupation by the enemy lasted from the 3d to the 10th, the village was pillaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

They plundered, pillaged and ransacked the whole; they seized us, some by the neck, and others by the hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference

At Hartennes-et-Taux, in the Arrondissement of Soissons, the Germans, as everywhere else, pillaged the houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

I pillaged the medicine cabinet, and was close to giving up when I saw the half-full toothpaste tube by the sink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Bedpost] Reference

The town of Lawrence, which the Free Staters held, was taken and pillaged by a wild mob under the leadership of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference

Foreign property was attacked and pillaged -- even ships lying in the bay had to sail off and anchor out afar for safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Neither worked, Rae being the beneficiary of a small trust, administered and pillaged by a local lawyer, himself alcoholic.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference

The barbarians found, of course, no difficulty in taking and burning the city, and for days they sacked and pillaged the houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference

He pillaged the farms, stopped railway trains, boldly demanding ransom from captives from the municipal governments of large towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

As I wrote in "Illacrimate Sepolture," these graves were pillaged in 1947 after the war, when many bodies were dug up to be studied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder Among Medicis] Reference

'The English,' reported Duke William's outposts to their master, 'rush onward through their pillaged country with the fury of madmen.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from English History] Reference

She says "the awful truth is that the corporate tricksters have pillaged the U.S. economy '' and paid" legal bribes '' to make politicians look the other way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Huffing And Puffing Over Greedy Ceos] Reference

Elsewhere in Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially along the river Drina, whole towns were pillaged and massacred in what the Serbs themselves termed “ethnic cleansing.”.    From Wordnik.com.  ['God Is Not Great'] Reference