breaking and entering

Example Sentences

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Now, after breaking and entering the dwarfs’ home, Zegler doesn’t spend this iteration of “Whistle While You Work” tidying up with birds, squirrels and bunnies — she makes the men scrub their own damned floors.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

Squatting is legal is Australia, but laws prohibiting breaking and entering or trespass - remaining on private property when instructed to leave - still apply.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024

She gently scolded them for breaking and entering.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2022

Doubling of concepts is also common: null and void, breaking and entering, pain and suffering, legal and binding.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Special attention should be paid to fingerprints of individuals charged with burglary, breaking and entering, armed robbery, and other similar crimes.

From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)