Post-disaster danger

Usage examples of looters.

He paused momentarily to get his bearings, using his knife to fend off any looters who might want to spill more Sikh blood.

Nine of the dozen looters were at work on the task when there was a tumult back in the castle.

Hoddan ordered greater discrimination, but his pirates by this time were in the position of directors rather than looters themselves.

The treasure-seekers and the looters and ordinary citizens trying to stake claims to businesses and shops were going to be down that road like a nest of willy-wisps stirred with a stick.

He could be one of the looters, for all she knew, what with that truck and all.

More looters came, picking their way over the shards of glass and disappearing inside the darkened store.

For just one moment the looters froze like a film stopped in mid-action.

The looters showed a considerate willingness to plunder only in regular shopping hours, and only when daylight was fully switched on did the TV vans get their cameras rolling at some of the most popular scenes of pillage.

The looters were summoning that gleeful hysteria that marks the finale of a hit show.

And he was damned if he would leave it to the ravages of wind and water or to the unwelcome attentions of the packs of looters sure to follow.

Behind her came a triumphant cheer as the cloud dissipated and the looters surged through.

She glanced back, but the looters did not follow her away from the battlefield.

When an army smashes open the gates of a rich Nanking house, Wang Lung and O-lan join the looters, not for any political reason, but out of curiosity and desperation.

She herself had saved it from the Gantese looters after the battle in which her father had died.