What's the difference between bandit and burglar?

Bandit


Definition:

  • (n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
  • (2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (3) After all, on any sober calculation of relative sins, HSBC's dealings with Mexican drug bandits were surely several leagues more serious than other banks' Libor-rigging scandals.
  • (4) For two decades, bandits and kidnappers have kept out the tourists who used to flock to the temple of the queen, while the desert hinterland has become a haven for jihadis and militants of various stripes.
  • (5) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
  • (6) If it becomes a sanctuary for terrorists, narcotics traffickers, jihadists and bandits, our neighbours will be affected too.
  • (7) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
  • (8) Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne’s Rather Be is currently top of its chart, having been streamed 32m times in the UK in the first nine months of 2014, putting it ahead of the 30m streams of Pharrell Williams’ Happy.
  • (9) It is an occasionally dangerous, always beautiful place, rich in history and tradition, often presented in the news media as bandit country.
  • (10) Bandits have taken over.” In the sanatorium kitchen volunteers were making lunch.
  • (11) Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for aid workers, al-Shabaab, pirates and bandits have all targeted aid workers in recent months with kidnappings and shootings.
  • (12) Idon't know why they call him Bandit; I hope it's just because he's fun.
  • (13) The film takes a bleak view of US expansionism, depicting some pioneers as cheats, brutes and bandits, I say.
  • (14) And having had Clean Bandit over to my home for an intimate after party after seeing them perform live in Miami, I have to say that I couldn’t wish more happiness and success to such a lovely, talented group of people.
  • (15) Aid officials and residents say Dadaab is becoming more dangerous as bandits kill, rape and steal, and Islamic militants target civilians and Kenyan security forces with bombs and shootings.
  • (16) Without impostors, nationalists and bandits, without tanks and APCs, and without secret visits of the director of the CIA … UPDATE: Medvedev again warned of civil war in Ukraine after a meeting Tuesday with his counterparts from Belarus and Kazakhstan, Reuters reports: Medvedev said on Tuesday he hoped that the authorities in the Ukrainian capital have "enough brains" to prevent a further escalation of the conflict in the east of the country.
  • (17) The war in Chechnya ended, bandits disappeared from the streets and both the existential and economic despair of the Soviet collapse began to ease.
  • (18) The navy and air force crave another Libya, where they "bravely" spent half a billion pounds replacing a nutcase with a bunch of bandits.
  • (19) They say they are ready to defend Crimea against all unwanted intrusions, namely western authorities and the new administration in Kiev, seen by many in the region as bandits and terrorists who seized power illegally.
  • (20) He looks like a Canadian mountie who has just arrested some robot time bandits at the border.

Burglar


Definition:

  • (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1972 burglars working on behalf of president Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic party headquarters in Washington, and successfully installed a listening device on at least one phone.
  • (2) A police officer attended the scene of a burglary in progress and, following a pursuit through the house with his gun in hand, short the burglar in the back of the head.
  • (3) In a sophisticated operation, the burglars are believed to have abseiled from the roof of the building, disabling movement sensors, they write.
  • (4) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (5) He denies the charge , insisting that he mistook her for a burglar.
  • (6) However, lecturer Paul Kohler, who was savagely beaten by Polish burglars who broke into his west London home last year, was at the demonstration for a Channel 4 News programme and said he was depressed by the views of those on the march.
  • (7) You are a killer.” The second was in May 2013 against Shepherd Moyo, a serial rapist and burglar whose sentence of 252 years was intended to serve as a deterrent, she said.
  • (8) "You wouldn't ask burglars to come in and shape the law on burglary but they are breaking the law and they are shaping the law," he said.
  • (9) He told the court that he mistook her for a burglar, while prosecutors argued that he shot her after an argument.
  • (10) Southern Investigations has previously been implicated in handling paperwork which was stolen by a professional burglar from the safe of Paddy Ashdown's lawyer, when Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats.
  • (11) The activity of burglars more often then the thieves' one goes over into the night.
  • (12) Matsuka said unknown people had tried to storm his office, and his team had installed security cameras, a panic button and burglar alarm.
  • (13) Alcoholic intoxication hardly occurs with offences against property, although the activity of burglars goes over into the early hours of night.
  • (14) Why on earth did they have their phones with them?” a former burglar, who knew three of the burglars well, asked me.
  • (15) When he examined the body, a black yarmulke was present near the outstretched hand of the burglar.
  • (16) What everyone can hear, loud as a burglar alarm, is the shriek of self-interest dressed up as national interest.
  • (17) The 42-year-old convicted burglar put Pegida, which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, onto the political agenda by leading weekly rallies in the eastern city of Dresden to defend what he calls “German” values.
  • (18) The police had to be persuaded that this was a respectable author who liked climbing things from the outside and not an inept cat burglar returning to the scene of his crime.)
  • (19) In Robot & Frank (1 ) you play a forgetful retired cat burglar whose kids hire him a home-help robot (2 ).
  • (20) England could have a skyline of huge footballers mansions (complete with burglars).