Example sentences for: robbed

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

  • This man claims that he has been robbed en route and is stranded without money or his plane ticket in an airport somewhere in Europe or the Middle East.

  • His daughter having noticed that the death-warrant was expected from London, attired herself in men's clothes, and twice attacked and robbed the mails (between Belford and Berwick), which conveyed the death-warrants; thus, by delaying the execution, giving time to Sir John Cochrane's father, the Earl of Dundonald, to make interest with Father Peter (a Jesuit), King James's Confessor, who, for the sum of five thousand pounds [something like $5 million today], agreed to intercede with his Royal Master in favour of Sir John Cochrane, and to procure his pardon; which was effected.

  • Asahi Shimbun quotes several English fans declaring they were "robbed" by a missed call against the Argentines.

  • In their hunger to acquire new customers, Net retailers have engaged in good old-fashioned price wars and have more generally made Net shoppers so accustomed to sizable discounts that paying anything close to retail feels like you're being robbed.

  • Two straight men lured Shepard from a bar, robbed him, beat him savagely, and left him for dead.


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