mugger

Example Sentences

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A blind BBC reporter managed to stop a mugger from stealing his mobile phone by "instinctively" leaping on them.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2022

“The figure of Black criminality is no longer limited to the mugger or the rioter or the gang member,” said Insa Koch, an anthropologist and lawyer who studies the legislation’s application in Britain.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2022

But only in the movies does the karate student always succeed in beating up the bully or the mugger.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2020

I won't fight a mugger because I'm scared of what he'd do to me, so I walk away.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019

“He can call in the police, the army and the secret service. If he says ‘boo,’ a mugger at the other end of the city drops a wallet.”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer