Examples of 'sacked and burned' in a sentence

Meaning of "sacked and burned"

sacked and burned - refers to the act of firing someone from their job and then destroying everything, typically used in the context of war or extreme situations

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sacked and burned
The city was sacked and burned.
The national security secret police headquarters was sacked and burned.
Their homes were sacked and burned with a heavy loss of life.
The precious wealth they took from constantinople after they sacked and burned it.
The next day his forces sacked and burned the town and moved westwards.
We have also got a fellow named Ser Davos Dayne who sacked and burned Oldtown.
The city is sacked and burned and Darius enslaves its inhabitants.
His victorious troops then sacked and burned the city.
They sacked and burned Rouen and carried off enormous amounts of loot.
Tradition says this site was sacked and burned by Gudit.
Nineveh is sacked and burned by combined forces of Babylonians and Medes.
Indian villages were attacked at dawn, sacked and burned.
His troops sacked and burned Moscow.
Malo 's house was amongst the many to be sacked and burned.
The British troops sacked and burned the villages of Saint-Benoît and Saint-Eustache.

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Yogyakarta fell in one day, and the palace was sacked and burned.
After their victory, Ottomans sacked and burned fortress of Brest and raided Turopolje region.
That night, the city of Troy was sacked and burned.
The city was sacked and burned during the Mongol invasion of 1241.
After its' surrender Zhongdu was sacked and burned.
In 200 BC, the Gauls sacked and burned it, selling the population into slavery.
His first action was to march north, where he sacked and burned Zia Pueblo.
Niani was sacked and burned in 1670, which marked the end of the Mali Empire.
As retaliation, the settlers sacked and burned the village.
Further south were the cities Diacira and Ozogardana, which the Roman forces sacked and burned.
In early 1856, proslavery forces sacked and burned a part of the free soil town of Lawrence.
The castle was assaulted during the Satsuma Rebellion and sacked and burned after a 53-day siege.

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Examples of using Burned
It might get burned up with the gasoline
Burned him while he still breathed life
I think daddy burned her with cigarettes
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Examples of using Sacked
Rome has been sacked twice in her past
Sacked for played confessions out of suspects
She should not be sacked for curiosity
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