How to Use loot in a Sentence

loot

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• The loot in Diablo 4 is a vast improvement over the loot in the launch version of Diablo 3.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023
• These crimes sometimes see long caravans of late-model cars and pickups descend suddenly on stores and malls and depart with the loot almost as quickly.
  — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024

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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
• In recent weeks in the north, including Gaza City, police and powerful clans have teamed up to form committees to try to prevent people from looting trucks and stealing aid, residents told The Post.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024