Example sentences for: burglary

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

  • Each crime has its own particular name, so the inmate in for screwing burglary and the one in for hoisting shoplifting, can be distinguished from the blagger robber.

  • Three thousand loaves were shipped off anyway--the guards suspected a burglary, not a poisoning--and as a result some 2,000 of the 15,000 prisoners came down with food poisoning.

  • Wanted on charges of burglary, McLaren holed up in Ft.

  • Indeed, burglary rates are down by almost half.

  • So, we decriminalized virtually all minor offenses, we refused to confront young persons meaningfully for minor offenses--in New York City even burglary was for all practical purposes decriminalized (police didn't even bother investigating it)--and to use Moynihan's phrase, we "defined deviance down."


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