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Last November Italians Jugoslav Jovanovic, Alessandro Maltese and Alessandro Donati were jailed for 28 years in total after pleading guilty to conspiracy to burgle.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2022

"There were guards at duty free as if we were going to burgle it," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2022

“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

There once was a lonesome, lorn spinster, And luck had for years been ag'inst her; When a man came to burgle She shrieked, with a gurgle, "Stop thief, while I call in a min'ster!"

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning

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

After watching his side burgled in their own home by an increasingly familiar Rangers away Europa League display, the Portuguese landed far more blows on the visitors than his team had managed.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

East Sussex singer Sam Tompkins is pleading for the return of his late father’s necklace after his house was burgled.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024

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

Manchester City winger Jack Grealish says he is "devastated" after the "traumatic experience" of thieves burgling his home while he was playing.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023

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

Not only were they unaware of the burglary, but they had not even an idea as to the recent event which had made the First room so fit a hunting-ground for the burgling industry.

From The Pothunters by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse