Example sentences for: robbery

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

  • The number of probation cases involving a "person offense"--such as homicide, rape, robbery, or assault--soared by 45 percent.

  • It turns out, as Mayer wrote in The New Yorker this week, that her source on the robbery incident was Tripp's former stepmother--who has since agreed to go on the record.

  • Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.

  • Early reports linked Markhasev to a Russian car-theft ring, but police now say the killing looks like a random robbery attempt gone awry.

  • Not expecting to be treated justly, he fled to the hills, and from then on, Vásquez led a life of horse stealing, robbery, and hiding out in the foothills of California.


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