forayed

Definition of forayednext
past tense of foray

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for forayed
Verb
  • Last fall, copper thieves plundered about a dozen public streetlights over three city blocks, leaving their neighborhood in the dark.
    Gavin J. Quinton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The last round of expansion, adding Seattle and Vancouver, came at significant cost to the league’s six original franchises, which had their rosters plundered in the expansion draft.
    Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Democrats are demanding that the DHS portion of the bill be stripped from the package and weighed separately to make changes to how the agency operates, a move that Republicans have so far resisted.
    Garrett Downs,Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The exact terms of Engstrand’s departure are unclear, but being stripped of play-calling marked a clear demotion.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Buildings burned to the ground; businesses were looted.
    Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
  • For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said.
    Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • In a landscape of sequels and overly pillaged IP, the Stranger Things finale is finite and close-ended, the credits rolling once and for all.
    Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Many prehistoric structures were pillaged for rock, but a remarkable number are intact.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • And because only days before the February 2021 surgery Mahomes had scrambled a stupefying 497 yards behind the line of scrimmage before throwing the ball or being sacked in a 31-9 drubbing by Tampa Bay in Super Bowl LV.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Ward was also sacked 55 times, the most in the league.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The Texans were ravaged by injuries on the interior defensive line this season, and many of those players will be free agents.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • White phosphorus also ignited large-scale fires that ravaged oak and pine forests and devastated wildlife.
    Josiane Yazbeck, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Well, Federer just destroyed him — 6-1, 6-4 in about 50 minutes — and that left a lot of time to fill.
    Patrick McEnroe, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The fire killed two people, destroyed 1,084 homes and businesses and did more than $2 billion in property damage.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
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“Forayed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forayed. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.

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