How to Use loot in a Sentence

loot

1 of 2 noun
  • The thieves got a lot of loot in the robbery.
  • He made a lot of loot selling cars.
  • After raiding the town, the soldiers helped themselves to any loot that they could find.
  • And these two are well worth your time and loot.
    — Tony Sachs, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Where will the free loot be on the waiver wire?
    — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • While the store's look hasn't changed too much over the decades, the loot has.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • If a song from the '60s plays, that means there's no new loot.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • If Hufbauer is right, there is a lot of loot at stake.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The huge loot pool is not helped by the absurdly low drop rate.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Much of the loot has not been recovered.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The headline is that the Woods map is now a haven for rare loot.
    — Mike Stubbs, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Join us in the Twitch stream above and get ready to sing along and score some loot.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Valuable loot has been placed in bird’s nests and chimneys around the map.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The way the system is set up to try and get loot from the season is just…wrong.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • Aaron Rodgers could earn some loot on the links if this football thing doesn't work out.
    — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2021
  • Much of the loot was slipped to Malaysian officials as bribes.
    — Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of characters, a lot of loot, a lot of missions to run.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • And that is itemization, and the loot drops that play into it.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Now, those thugs are convinced Joe knows where the loot is hidden.
    — Time, 30 June 2023
  • The loot hasn't been recovered.
    — Brittany Williams, Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Unbeknownst to her, the loot had been stashed in her attic crawl space.
    — Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Overwatch isn’t getting an open world or loot or anything like that.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The missing loot includes gems and semiprecious stones set in rings.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • There will also be a limited-time in-game event with the chance to win more loot.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • This week is a big one for high-end loot chasing in Destiny 2.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Whatever the case, Notre Dame got all of that loot.
    — Terence Moore, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes, burglars smash through glass doors and snag their loot during the night when the stores are closed.
    — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But as anyone who studies these things knows, stealing the loot is only half the job.
    — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Because both their accounts and stashes of in-game loot can be sold for tidy profits.
    — Lee Mathews, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Roland Garros has long had great loot, often too great on a sportswriter’s salary.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2021

loot

2 of 2 verb
  • The soldiers were looting every house that they came to.
  • Soldiers swept through the territory, looting, burning, and killing.
  • All the rooms in the building are flush with loads of ammo, chests, and loot.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 12 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Six were killed, dozens injured, and fires and looting caused damage.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Most family homes had been robbed and looted.
    — Yousra Elbagir, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Weapon mods can also be looted or crafted out of two of the same mods of a lower tier.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The footage shows people pouring into the store to loot food, drinks and other items.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Shop windows were smashed and a Foot Locker store was looted.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The Nazis used the state to loot (Jews, Czechs, Poles) but didn’t loot the state.
    — WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Shoot and loot your way across an alien planet and gather thousands of different weapons along the way.
    — Jess Grey, Wired, 13 June 2021
  • By this point, the Sudanese pound had become worthless as shops lay smashed and looted.
    — Jack Jeffery and Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
  • When news spread of King’s murder, looting and rioting broke out across the city.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Buildings burned to the ground; businesses were looted.
    — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Mobs are looting foreigners’ shops.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2026
  • Dozens of shops were looted, and a number of police officers were injured.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The heist crew then spent eight hours looting the store, which held $20 million worth of high-end jewelry.
    — Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Fires were set inside City Hall, and some businesses were looted.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That is looting, plain and simple, and clearly unlawful.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Stolen Louvre loot worth $102 million may be melted down.
    — Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Stolen Louvre loot worth $102 million may be melted down.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Stolen Louvre loot worth $102 million may be melted down.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Stolen Louvre loot worth $102 million may be melted down.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • One night later, a smaller group picked up where the first had left off, looting businesses that in some cases were streamed live.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Attempts to loot other government funds appear to have been common.
    — Gerald Posner, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said.
    — Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The commercial district stands gutted, looted and torched.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Police stopped the violence there that night, but more racist beatings and looting erupted downtown.
    — USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Much of the Kim clan’s once-opulent house had burned down after being looted, Kim says.
    — Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026
  • These billionaires earned their wealth by producing massive value for users, not by looting.
    — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026

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