Sack example sentences

In the midst of this economic and political crisis, the ruler of Iran, Nadir Shah, sacked and plundered the city of Delhi in 1739 and took away immense amounts of wealth.On the 27th, the Police Headquarters were ransacked.They made and sold wares such as ropes, reeds, straw matting and coarse sacks.When Nadir Shah sacked Delhi in 1739, many of the city's notables took refuge there.With the opening of that sack began a phase of my life that has not yet ended, and may, for all I know, not end before I do.The creature that emerged from this sack on to the spacious tiled floor of the Consulate bedroom resembled most of all a very small, medievallyconceived, dragon.I carried it to my bedroom to read, and there, squatting on the floor, were two Arabs; beside them lay a sack that squirmed from time to time.When the procession of workers led by Father Gapon reached the Winter Palace it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks.This is how he described the ransacking of Delhi in 1857: “When the angry lions (the British) entered the town, they killed the helpless … and burned houses.