burglarize

Example Sentences

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“It just kept playing in my mind, ‘How can you burglarize this?’”

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

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

“He would have no need to burglarize or steal anything from anyone at a trailer park,” Steinberg said, adding that Winslow “looks forward to being vindicated” in court.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2018

Tolbert says he believes that “will have an effect on those who burglarize homes in Flint.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 11, 2015

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