(n.) One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe they have military training but only certain people would have the balls – the audacity – to pull off something like that.” Another former robber said the stolen goods would already be at their destination.
(2) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
(3) "The circumstances caused George to think he might be a robber or do something bad because of what had gone on," she said, referring to a recent series of burglaries in the development.
(4) The outcry over the incident – and over a police attempt to portray Becerra as a suspected armed robber – led to graffiti protests across the city as well as the arrest of two police officers.
(5) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
(6) Later still, the local police chief was removed as primary responder, but he still managed to muddy the waters (which the Brown family calls character assassination) by first releasing video of a black robber and then admitting it had nothing to do with Brown's shooting.
(7) At Christmas 1964, he was joined in Mexico by his fellow train robbers Buster Edwards, who had not yet been caught, and Charlie Wilson, who had escaped from Winson Green prison.
(8) The Sun reported that a blade was held to her throat during the ordeal, while one of the robbers shouted: "If you don't tell us where the safe is we'll cut off your kids' fingers."
(9) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
(10) He's looks like a very rich man who doesn't want to open his books – and that fits the robber baron frame.
(11) Many of the robbers have already died: Charlie Wilson was shot dead in the Spain in 1990; Buster Edwards killed himself in 1994; Roy James died in 1997; Jimmy Hussey died last year after supposedly making a deathbed confession that he was the gang member who coshed the train driver, Jack Mills, who died of leukaemia seven years later.
(12) He is suspected of being the robber who, disguised as a police officer, was the first one to force his way into the depot on the night of the heist.
(13) Whereas taking bags full of cash into financial institutions in Thailand will manifest in being offered a comfortable seat and a cup of tea.” One former armed robber from south London has his own theory as to why the theft has attracted such attention and speculation.
(14) And it is through this work that she came across one former robber… Graham Godden's childhood was grim in comparison to Malton's.
(15) Electronic fraudsters will replace the stocking and shotgun robbers of the past.
(16) There were a lot of young men on the streets who were mainly out to play cops and robbers with the police.
(17) The prosecutor said that the struggle ensued after Wilson realised that Brown matched a description broadcast over police radio moments earlier for a grocery store robber.
(18) "But really what we're looking for is the fragments that the ancient tomb robbers left to us."
(19) But it was, perhaps, the 30-year sentences the robbers received that played a major part in creating the myths around them.
(20) Activists dressed up as highway robbers carried banners saying: "The Great British Royal Mail Robbery".
Robbery
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of robbing; theft.
(n.) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(2) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(4) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
(5) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(6) Police chief Wolfgang Albers, 60, had been criticised for the handling of the violence, with a leaked police report describing this week how officers were initially overwhelmed by events outside the city’s train station, after which more than 100 women filed criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery, including two accounts of rape.
(7) A suspect has been charged with murder and robbery in the case.
(8) Two people were arrested on Thursday night following an attempted smash-and-grab robbery at Selfridges department store in central London .
(9) The name, Sallah Ali, that he had given to police when he was arrested for robbery in the south of France 2013, might not be the correct name, he said.
(10) James Mason is an IRA man holed up in a safe house, who leaves his confinement to lead a bank robbery.
(11) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
(12) Car theft led to a third sentence, and it was during that time that he was to meet Bruce Reynolds , the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery.
(13) But despite the attention to detail with which the robbery was executed, fatal errors soon led the police to the doors of most of those who had participated.
(14) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
(15) It is the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, on Thursday.
(16) The two men believed to have founded the NSU with her, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, set their caravan on fire and killed themselves in 2011 after a bank robbery went wrong.
(17) In Thursday's robbery the thieves all fled the scene within minutes.
(18) Photograph: AP Abdeslam, who had had several brushes with the law and spent time in prison for armed robbery in 2010, came agonisingly close to arrest in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, but slipped through police hands.
(19) For female victims, homicides resulted from disputes in 62.2 per cent of cases, drug-related activities in 13.8 per cent, and robberies in 20.0 per cent of cases.
(20) The interim report found that out of a sample of 2,551 incidents that should have been recorded as crimes officers wrongly failed to record 523 of them including sexual offences, crimes of violence, robbery and burglary.