DESPOIL in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for DESPOIL, such as:

1. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner.
2. The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
3. If you do not yield, I am afraid the enemy will despoil the countryside.
4. Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth.
5. He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, and despoiled the sacristy.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESPOIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
despoil
 v.  deprive of something valuable by force; rob; take as spoils
Classic Sentence:
1  "I've got a few new things," he said, suffused with pleasure, but lowering his voice as though he feared his fellow-passengers might be in league to despoil him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
2  It is not the property of which men can deprive us that matters, but the property of which no one on earth can deprive or despoil us.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process called double pickings.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
4  He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, and despoiled the sacristy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
5  Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
6  Beyond Portsmouth the sea was covered with vessels whose masts, like a forest of poplars despoiled by the winter, bent with each breath of the wind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628
7  I say the two, because Cardinal Rospigliosi, who had not taken any precaution, was completely despoiled.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
8  Within a week all the blooming roads had been despoiled, hundreds of miles of yellow sunflowers had been transformed into brown, rattling, burry stalks.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
9  Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had despoiled, so as to take away that pretext from the Pope.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
10  White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  If you do not yield, I am afraid the enemy will despoil the countryside.
2  The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
3  Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth.