forayed

past tense of foray

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for forayed
Verb
  • The Stuttgart striker plundered two second-half goals, including a stoppage-time winner, to earn his side a place in the last 32.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • Which were left to be plundered and destroyed?
    Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Abruptly, he was stripped of power, escorted out by guards and — in Soviet style — was written out of Columbia’s history.
    Chet Flippo, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
  • As Ars reported last week, AMD stripped the protection, known as TSME, from consumer Ryzen processors.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • Some have been looted, burned, and abandoned, while others face critical shortages of supplies, medicines, or staff.
    Tirana Hassan, Time, 26 June 2026
  • The sandstone artifact, which depicts the Hindu epic character Duryodhana, had in fact been looted from Koh Ker in or around 1972, after the all-important UNESCO convention.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • One looks to the story of the Haitian World Cup team, appearing in the tournament for the first time in fifty years, which has gathered expatriate players from the Haitian diaspora to play for that beautiful and utterly despoiled country, where many of them have never lived.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.
    Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • North Texas — whose roster was pillaged in the portal and saw its top players leave for Oklahoma State alongside former head coach Eric Morris — have signed 42 transfers.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Bellamy, 46, is poised to take his first full-time job in club management, replacing Scott Parker who was sacked in April following Burnley’s relegation from the Premier League.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Greek coach Georgios Donis was appointed just two months ago after Saudi Arabia sacked former coach Hervé Renard.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • His hometown of Petite Riviere in Haiti’s main agricultural region, the Artibonite, has been ravaged by armed attacks.
    Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • The tree’s limbs were lopped off in the wake of January 2025’s Eaton fire, which ravaged Altadena and part of Pasadena, but all these months after the fire, there’s new growth on the tree.
    Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • The second inferno killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures across the Palisades and Malibu and cost billions in damage and insurance claims.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • In Paradise, California, a community destroyed by wildfire adopted the ‘Wildfire Prepared Home Standard’ as its mandatory rebuilding benchmark.
    Nina Seega, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
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“Forayed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forayed. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

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