How to Use ransack in a Sentence

ransack

verb
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  • The room had been ransacked.
  • Robbers ransacked the apartment looking for money.
  • Deputies who went to the house found the front door open and rooms ransacked.
    — La Cañada Valley Sun, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The house was filthy and looked like it had been ransacked.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The trucks get smashed up, and the stuff gets looted or ransacked off the backs of the trucks.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The killer had ransacked the home, found a floor safe in the closet and emptied it.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 23 June 2023
  • Or, find the team that ransacked New York City two weeks ago and win the whole darn thing.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Once inside, the home was ransacked and a gun safe was pried open.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The suspects forced the man to open the door to his home and ransacked the place, before fleeing the scene with cash.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Instead, Bridge and Dom open Jo’s door to find that the house has been ransacked.
    — Daneet Steffens, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • When they were found in their Spring home two days later, the house was ransacked and their Porsche stolen.
    — Alyson Ward, Houston Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The son's upstairs bedroom was ransacked and two smart phones and $100 cash was stolen.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Moïse is held at gunpoint as the room is ransacked in search of the document.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • The statement said that the house had not been ransacked, and that no valuables were found to be missing.
    — Time, 1 July 2018
  • It was taken and the home ransacked soon after the uncle died.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al.com, 3 July 2019
  • To think someone came in your home and ransacked something like that?
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • But a bear and possum barbecue for the whole city to ransack?
    — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • When the officer opened the door to look inside, the bedrooms had been ransacked.
    — Hannah Fry, Daily Pilot, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The men ransacked the home and took a cellphone, laptop, a photo ID and $222 in cash, police said.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Over the years, the inside of the vacant building has been ransacked, set on fire and torn apart from ceiling to floor.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The victims were then moved to the front porch and held captive by Trull for more than 30 minutes while the others ransacked the house.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The episode ends as his band of thieves violently ransacks the Frasers' camp along the river.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2018
  • As imams called people onto the streets, a mob ransacked and burned a small clinic.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Shouldn’t this place be ransacked by hordes of tourists every hour of every day?
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
  • After ransacking the home, the men took off in Douglas’ car but abandoned it down the street.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • At that point, Knutson said, the attacker would ransack the house.
    — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The men took his wallet, stepped over his body and ransacked his home, where Kaynor's wife and 8-year-old daughter slept.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • It was found at the bottom of a 30ft pit, in a tomb that had been ransacked and robbed in antiquity.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The action game gave players the freedom to ransack the mall and using nearly anything as a weapon.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • An unknown number of people were inside the store for about two minutes, ransacked it and assaulted the store clerk, leaving him with a bloody nose, according to the Police Department.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024

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