Example sentences for: robs

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

  • I avoid reading really good books, because it robs me of the pleasure of looking forward to them.

  • Betrayed, humiliated, beaten to a pulp, he limps along a snakelike corridor toward that final confrontation with the bad guy--and then a deus ex machina robs him of his finest hour.

  • Steinbrenner loathes this redistribution of wealth: He considers it a welfare program that rewards bad teams for not trying and robs successful teams of their hard-earned riches.

  • A swollen military budget robs the nation of resources for education and other actual needs.

  • Kirkbuzzer (noun): A person who robs churches; from the archaic Scotch.


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