Example sentences for: robber

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

  • The popular portrayal of bloated plutocrats has changed enormously in the last 150 years, devolving from the 19 th century's ferocious robber barons, to that guy on the Monopoly box who was always chasing his secretary around his desk in New Yorker cartoons, to the addled and ineffectual potbellies of Depression-era screwball comedy.

  • The mastaba of Princess Idut has exceptional nautical scenes and you’ll also catch sight of the name of a tomb robber — Ahmed the Carpenter — who couldn’t resist letting the world know about his visit.

  • The result of his well-meant and highly-appreciated gesture is that there is now in the deathless literature of entomology a robber fly species named Proctacanthus rodecki James, which is roughly translated “Rodeck's thorny anus.”

  • Myth of the Robber Barons , by Burton W. Folsom Jr.

  • Do people still use a Jesse James as a metaphor for any (bank) robber?


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