Exempel på torched

• The burning of the cooperative building is still shrouded in mystery, but some people believe that the building was torched by guerrillas who regarded cooperatives as symbols of colonial exploitation.

• This is obviously another car that has been torched.

• The first time, they left; the second time, they came back and torched the barn.

• Some abandoned cars are the consequence of joyriding and are torched to remove the evidence of who was involved in the theft.

• Often reasonable-looking vehicles are quickly torn to pieces and sometimes torched.

• I know that they will drive people out and that we will see properties boarded up, bricked up and torched.

• Several cars were dismantled and torched; one caravan was gutted and dismantled.

• That is why club houses are torched and cricket squares are dug up.

• After a time, abandoned and vandalised vehicles are often torched, and the burned-out remains contribute to the general sense of decline.

• Vegetation left in their wake was torched.

• They have been boarded and bricked up or torched and left derelict and in decay because good, decent families have been driven out by crime and other inner-city problems.

• Coptic homes, shops, businesses, fields and livestock were plundered and torched.

• In burning the mountaintop fortress, they also torched the two churches and town.

• The people watched helplessly as the raiders torched villages, ransacked pagodas, and took away captives.

• They named the settlement after the woman who torched their ships.