highway robbery
Example Sentences
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Larsson pulled off the equivalent of highway robbery when he stood in the crease after a Driedger kick save and used his stick to stop a rebound shot headed into a vacated net.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2021
Molly got five bucks, and Fred let her know it was frickin’ highway robbery.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021
“This is highway robbery without a gun. It’s not just us that they’re taking from. It’s our families who struggle to make ends meet and send us money, they are the real victims.”
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2018
What they will receive—or at least, what he wants to offer—is highway robbery.
From Slate • May 23, 2017
He had been seen; and that night he was led, a fettered man, to the jail of H——, charged with highway robbery.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
