Example sentences for: heist

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

  • Its deadpan attitude and traditional plot--thieves heist jewelry and then double-cross one another--are said to hark back to classic film noir.

  • Neal had ditched his freebuick, but apparently we looked like some hipsters who had pulled off a jewelry heist downtown.

  • With its featherweight premise, casually amoral heroes, and exotic locales, it conjures up an era (the '60s and '70s) when twisty, romantic heist pictures were routinely ground out as tax shelters--and sometimes cast with the producers' model girlfriends, so that expensive vacations could be written off, too.

  • Great reviews for this "cheeky, blackly comic heist picture" (Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), the debut from British director Guy Ritchie.

  • The tight, clockwork construction of his early masterpiece, the heist drama The Killing , is gloriously in sync--and then bitterly at odds--with the robbery's unraveling.


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