robber

Example Sentences

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Arguing over the name of a great train robber, in the midst of more serious business, Debbie and William slide into what amounts to an Abbott and Costello routine.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

"Ludicrously, one of their concerns was that the robber was a 'customer'."

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

This was the age of robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil was a business “trust” comprising dozens of companies in numerous vertically linked industries.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

They looked at her weirdly a bunch of times, like she was a bank robber and they were trying to see where she’d hidden her loot, but they didn’t say anything mean.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy