How to Use ransack in a Sentence

ransack

verb
  • The room had been ransacked.
  • Robbers ransacked the apartment looking for money.
  • The back door was smashed and the home ransacked.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Deputies who went to the house found the front door open and rooms ransacked.
    — La Cañada Valley Sun, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Our oldest souqs had been ransacked and burnt to the ground.
    — Yousra Elbagir, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Ran out to try to stop it and find masked guys ransacking the van.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Feels like someone went in our home, ransacked our things.
    — Zach Boetto, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Feels like someone went in our home, ransacked our things.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Her house was ransacked, and her killer stayed to eat, drink, and smoke in the home.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Once inside, the home was ransacked and a gun safe was pried open.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • It had been ransacked and there was only a tiny bit of oil to light the lamps.
    — Philip Pacheco, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Like some ghastly old lag, ransacking the plans of a bank vault!
    — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
  • To think someone came in your home and ransacked something like that?
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Her home had been ransacked, and her missing car was found abandoned.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Shouldn’t this place be ransacked by hordes of tourists every hour of every day?
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
  • More than a thousand fires burned, and more than a thousand shops were ransacked.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The killer had ransacked the home, found a floor safe in the closet and emptied it.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 23 June 2023
  • The front door was broken down, some windows smashed — the place had been ransacked.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But a bear and possum barbecue for the whole city to ransack?
    — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Moïse is held at gunpoint as the room is ransacked in search of the document.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • It was taken and the home ransacked soon after the uncle died.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al.com, 3 July 2019
  • As imams called people onto the streets, a mob ransacked and burned a small clinic.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • In one instance, a school was set on fire; in another, a mosque was ransacked.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • The back door was damaged, and the residence had been ransacked.
    — Glenn E. Rice, kansascity.com, 26 May 2017
  • The statement said that the house had not been ransacked, and that no valuables were found to be missing.
    — Time, 1 July 2018
  • The suspects ransacked the home before fleeing the scene.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The A-list couple was not home at the time, but the home was ransacked before the group took off.
    — Alex Stone, ABC News, 20 May 2025
  • 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
  • After ransacking the house, the sheriff and deputies left.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026

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