Example sentences for: burglar

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

  • Named after the city gentleman and infamous burglar, it is one of the best-known pubs in the city.

  • A person who is catlike is lithe and active, moves stealthily and noiselessly, perhaps like a cat burglar seeking to commit a crime by using a cat-walk , a narrow ledge, footway, or platform.

  • The police, it added, must be kept "in pace with the galloping pace of high-tech in brilliantly planned and executed operations which could transform electronic gadgetry into burglar's tools when the 20 th century is in its last gasp."

  • But it has some of the best theme music in television history, and Rod Serling's voice can raise the hair on the back of my neck quicker than a scene out of Showgirls . My favorite episode: A burglar is shot dead while fleeing a crime scene and is transported to a wondrous place where every desire is immediately indulged--hot babes as far as the eye can see.

  • When a city delegation marches on his tent and offers to set his family up in a new house, the inveterate burglar asks for a place in a wealthier neighborhood so that he'll be "closer to work."


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