pillager

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pillager
Noun
  • The second trailer for the anthology story centers on a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
  • This anthology film tells of three fierce human warriors – a vengeful Viking raider, a ninja in feudal Japan and an Allied pilot in World War II – who face off against a deadly alien hunter with otherworldly weaponry and a mean streak.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Food was short, and if the marauders weren’t stopped, the entire population would starve.
    EW.com, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • There’s no evidence the great marauder himself descends from the Xiongnu elite, though, Brosseder says.
    ByAndrew Curry, science.org, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Sea Witch By Eva Leigh Canary Street Press: 448 pages, $19 (Aug. 26) Leigh has penned a pirate romantasy with an ultra-hot relationship at its center.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
  • However, the sugars in a molasses spray caused an increase of beneficial insects such as adult lacewings, lady beetles, weevil parasitoids, big-eyed bugs, minute pirate bugs, and adult hover flies.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 24 May 2025
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“Pillager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pillager. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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