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burgle

[bur-guhl] / ˈbɜr gəl /


VERB
burglarize
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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The suspect says he did not burgle Sarah.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2024

Alexandru Stan was acquitted of conspiring to burgle the homes following a high-profile trial.

From BBC Feb. 10, 2021

“You make it as hard as possible for burglars in hopes that they look for some other house to burgle, but it’s impossible to ever completely secure your house.”

From Washington Post Apr. 9, 2019

Ford’s conversion took England to within five points and they had two minutes to burgle a victory.

From The Guardian Aug. 22, 2015

"Only there certainly isn't anything here to burgle."

From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil

They speak a language that burgles and rains from their mouths like water through a pipe.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Here in America, when a man burgles your residence, you go and confide in a detective, who keeps your secret and gets another detective to help him.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.

From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Moments before the lunch interval Markram burgled the wicket of Hazlewood when the Aussie number 11 slapped a long hop to Keshav Maharaj at cover and was dismissed for 17.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2025

Weeks after her store was burgled, Leuschner had a strange interaction with a man offering her thousands of Legos “at a very low price.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2024

The burgled facility, hemmed in on one side by the active train tracks, is owned by World Oil Corp.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2024

The crime scene flat, set up to look like it has been burgled, aims to give students a chance to apply their learning in a "hands on" situation.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2024

Before me, Lelia had come off a string of men who made her feel steadily sorry and confused and burgled.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The burgling of the psychiatrist’s office has been misunderstood in many accounts of Ellsberg’s life.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2023

Co-defendant O'Shay Swan, 42, from Winson Green Road, Birmingham, denies burgling Mr Varlow's property between 10 and 13 November and committing fraud in relation to the use of a bank card on 12 November.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2022

But, she says, “I’m not using my garden and the wood beyond my cottage as a sort of green Tesco, burgling myself some green serotonin and dopamine. It’s much more of a two-way relationship.”

From The Guardian Mar. 14, 2020

She is charged with burgling the home of researcher Emily Cox, with whom Mr Hemming fathered a child in 2005.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2010

Besides, burgling involved more risks than he cared to take.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins




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