burgle
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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
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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
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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