Example sentences for: burglar

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

  • The paper says the cabal keeps its hold with public floggings and executions (the story describes a burglar's raucous public hand amputation), intensive street patrols and networks of informants.

  • She's supposed to be an undercover insurance operative who's out to catch legendary burglar Sean Connery in the act of stealing a priceless Chinese mask--or is she actually a thief herself planning to bag the scrumptious Scotsman along with the motherlode?

  • 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."

  • A plot in which Eastwood, as a cat burglar, spies Hackman, as the U.S. president, murdering his mistress is deemed cartoonish and incredible.

  • 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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