Rapine in a sentence as a noun

Robbery, butchery, rapine, with false names they call Empire; and they make a wilderness and call it peace.

The funds for this munificence must be found in war and rapine; nor are they so easily persuaded to cultivate the earth, and await the produce of the seasons, as to challenge the foe, and expose themselves to wounds; nay, they even think it base and spiritless to earn by sweat what they might purchase with blood.

Rapine definitions

noun

the act of despoiling a country in warfare

See also: rape