burglarize

Example Sentences

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Another resident, Andrés Calderón, 40, said several people in the neighborhood hadn’t wanted to leave their homes, fearing that thieves would burglarize them.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

“Westwood was entirely sure it was people trying to seek out their houses to burglarize them,” said Neal, a documentary film editor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2023

As thousands demonstrated in Washington this week to protest racial inequality and police brutality, scores of people used the civil unrest as a chaotic cover to burglarize businesses, according to police data and arrest records.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2020

“Eric Rivera Jr. would not have been in that car on the way to burglarize Sean Taylor’s house that night if he was a really good football player,” Dorsey said in a phone interview.

From Washington Times • Sep. 29, 2014

In wet weather, when his vestibule is shallow, the sand-hill crane may burglarize him, or even get a snap judgment on him at the front door.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various