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Example sentences for: burgle

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The fact is that burgle and burglarize saw the light of day at about the same time, 1870-71, and it is the useful old burgle , not burglarize that has been disparaged by usage critics, many of whom have argued that rob could have served for all of them.
Because of the search for false importance, it alleges, the useful old English words burgle and burglar have led by inflation [may be this was, after all, an economics essay] to the unnecessary verb burglarize .