Example sentences for: break-ins

How can you use “break-ins” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His capers range from casual break-ins to armed holdups to intricate jewel heists--the latter capped with an impudent visit to the police station to establish an alibi.

  • The defendants were W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, former chief of the FBI's intelligence division, accused of conspiring to violate the civil rights of members of the Weather Underground when they authorized warrantless break-ins of the radicals' homes (the Weatherfolk were suspected of planting bombs in public buildings) in 1972 and 1973.

  • On the stand, Nixon said that he thought the warrantless break-ins were perfectly legal.

  • We also know that Nixon sincerely believed that warrantless break-ins of the sort that Felt and Miller (and, under different circumstances, Nixon himself) had authorized were a necessary line of defense against radicals and troublemakers (many of whom did indeed prove to be violent).

  • -- Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Jack Valenti refers either to his midnight break-ins at the Baldwin brothers compound or to his trip to China to promote American movies


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