How to Use loot in a Sentence

loot

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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.
  • Moreover, the rest of the loot will go to the town of Adak.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 June 2022
  • If a song from the '60s plays, that means there's no new loot.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Join us in the Twitch stream above and get ready to sing along and score some loot.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The way the system is set up to try and get loot from the season is just…wrong.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • Much of the loot was slipped to Malaysian officials as bribes.
    — Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The huge loot pool is not helped by the absurdly low drop rate.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Glint narrates, and tells us they are filled with loot.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • But the plea deal had a major upside: Most of the loot was returned.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • And that is itemization, and the loot drops that play into it.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • When confronted about the items, which were valued at $375, the man took off but left the loot.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Now, those thugs are convinced Joe knows where the loot is hidden.
    — Time, 30 June 2023
  • This week is a big one for high-end loot chasing in Destiny 2.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The missing loot includes gems and semiprecious stones set in rings.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • All the loot in Marvel’s Avengers was forced to be non-cosmetic.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Vow of the Disciple is one of Destiny’s best raids with some of its best raid loot in years.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • When Susie arrives back at the hotel laden with bags of free loot, the ladies simply cannot deal.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • James happens to live with his wife and two daughters in the house where Johnny stashed his loot.
    — Rene Rodriguez, Variety, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Here’s the way loot drops used to work in Destiny: Play an activity to get a weapon.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • Dorit says one of the intruders was grabbing the loot and asking for watches and cash.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • But as anyone who studies these things knows, stealing the loot is only half the job.
    — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The four defendants had made confessions and returned part of the loot.
    — Stephanie Halasz, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • In contrast to those coaches, Ewers well get all of his loot over three years instead of one, but the point is the same: This is a bad look.
    — Terence Moore, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • After a few seconds of battling back the mob, the woman dropped her bags and the pigs absconded with their loot.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
  • Roland Garros has long had great loot, often too great on a sportswriter’s salary.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2021
  • Because both their accounts and stashes of in-game loot can be sold for tidy profits.
    — Lee Mathews, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
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loot

2 of 2 verb
  • The soldiers were looting every house that they came to.
  • Soldiers swept through the territory, looting, burning, and killing.
  • The Nazis used the state to loot (Jews, Czechs, Poles) but didn’t loot the state.
    — WSJ, 11 Mar. 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
  • All the rooms in the building are flush with loads of ammo, chests, and loot.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Or if every world loot pool item stayed in there right now.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The footage shows people pouring into the store to loot food, drinks and other items.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Shop windows were smashed and a Foot Locker store was looted.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Times have changed, and Trials loot is for everyone now.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 June 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
  • The music video brings the lyrics to life, with images of the American flag burning, protests, riots, looting and more.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • These can be run as a group or solo, and will get you XP and loot and specific ones will move the battle pass forward.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • This includes six objects looted from Benin’s Royal Palace by British colonists in 1897.
    — Rob Goyanes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Fires were set inside City Hall, and some businesses were looted.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Homes were razed and United Nations supplies looted, the agency said.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Enlarge / Bonnet's motley crew is ready to loot and plunder.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2022
  • An activist also said aid agencies’ offices had been looted in the Darfur town of Al Fashir.
    — Katharine Houreld and Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Many Saints fans reacted with fury, accusing the city and Benson of attempting to loot their home team.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Dozens of shops were looted, and a number of police officers were injured.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Two of those detained allegedly posed as aid workers and tried to loot six truckloads of food for quake victims in the southern Hatay province, the news site said.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Some inspected shops or homes that had been destroyed or looted during the fighting.
    — Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Closer inspection revealed holes in the sides of the sarcophagi where the human remains had been looted.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Rioters burned public buildings and looted a Nike store in Paris.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 June 2023
  • In the regional capital of Nyala in the southern part of Darfur, a witness said there were three days of violence and looting after the town fell on Oct. 26.
    — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Hundreds of shops and businesses were looted, and entire swaths of downtown Port-au-Prince blighted.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • In the early 1980s, Mr. Esterow received a tip about a monastery in Vienna that was rumored to house thousands of works looted by Nazi soldiers.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Entire towns and villages were burned to the ground and looted, especially in West Darfur province.
    — Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023

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