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burgle

[bur-guhl] / ˈbɜr gəl /


VERB
burglarize
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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A 10th man, Jack Foley, 24, from Egham, Surrey, denied conspiracy to burgle with Mr Glynne, Mr Murray, Mr Ogle and Mr Chandler, both from Hounslow, who have not entered pleas.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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

William "Bill" Lincoln, 60, denies being part of the conspiracy to burgle the safety desposit, in central London.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2015

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

From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2015

Well, he must manage it, "burgle" his own house, if necessary.

From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

Kelce's home was burgled on 7 October 2024 when he was away playing a game with the Kansas City Chiefs.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Love Island host Maya Jama and Manchester City player Ruben Dias are said to be devastated after their Cheshire home was burgled on Wednesday evening.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

Security company GardaWorld, whose Sylmar facility was burgled on Easter, has become a major player in cash logistics, an opaque — and growing — field.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 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

Mr Rowlands assumed they were burgling a tobacco shop and the numbers referred to cigarettes.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024

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

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023

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 Emily Cox, a researcher with whom Mr Hemming fathered a child in 2005.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2011

Orestes, bidden by Apollo to steal an image of the goddess to get his final purification, comes on the stage with Pylades; on seeing the temple they are convinced of the impossibility of burgling it.

From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb




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