(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".
Stole
Definition:
(imp.) of Steal
() imp. of Steal.
(n.) A stolon.
(n.) A long, loose garment reaching to the feet.
(n.) A narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
(2) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
(3) This is someone who once stole a three-bedroom house's worth of furniture from Ikea by bypassing the checkouts but still arranged to have it all delivered by them, personally, to her door.
(4) There's been so much abuse heaped upon these communities, and so much rightful anger at the people who stole their lands.
(5) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
(6) Child’s race was always going to be the main show but the dramatic entrance of young English talent stole several scenes and brought medals galore.
(7) In 2014, hackers stole information on an estimated 56 million debit and credit card customers from Home Depot .
(8) Mark Zuckerberg, its 26-year-old co-founder, has had to weather lawsuits from people who claim to have built the site with him; in 2008 Facebook paid $65m (£43m) to end claims that he stole the idea ; another case, from a web designer who claims 84% ownership of the site, awaits a hearing in a US court .
(9) Mr Ibrahim said the British adventurer and writer Gertrude Bell "filled two ships with goods she stole from here".
(10) They also took our children and put them in boarding schools and raped them and cut their hair and stole their language.” His grandmother was beaten for speaking her native language, so she did not pass it on to her children, he said, and youth were threatened with jail if they were caught practicing their religion.
(11) "Their doctrine is not to protect the people but to take revenge on those who attacked them and stole their weapons."
(12) Everything he touched, we assume he took, stole,” Flynn said.
(13) The home manager is extremely unlikely to have been impressed by the ease with which Benteke – who has now scored six goals in seven Premier League games against Sunderland for Liverpool and Aston Villa – stole behind Brown and Coates.
(14) This was supposed to be the start of a new era but Dimitri Payet’s magical display stole the show, leading to his manager, Slaven Bilic, labelling the Frenchman a bargain at £10.7m.
(15) Uggie the Jack Russell, who stole the show in Michel Hazanavicius's Oscar-winning The Artist last year, has officially retired from showbusiness in a ceremony at Hollywood's famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre .
(16) Football also evolves, just as the world, cars, computers do, so you have to keep evolving and immersing yourself in those changes.” It was telling that in April, when thieves broke into his parked car and stole various personal belongings, not only did he lose a contacts book with 20 years’ worth of professional associates, but also an iPad containing a draft of the football book he is working on.
(17) Just as the campaign was beginning to regain some normalcy, another intervention stole the spotlight.
(18) Writing in his blog, Khodorkovsky's lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, said : "The very charges underpinning this years-long process … are completely incoherent: you cannot say that someone stole all of Yukos's oil while at the same time sustaining that they had failed to pay taxes on profits made from selling that same oil."
(19) Tesco Bank cyber-thieves stole £2.5m from 9,000 people Read more Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said the discounters were being hit as they were now up against very strong rates of growth a year ago, while Tesco’s resurgence had made life more difficult.
(20) Behr had to separate the women when they literally went for each other's throat: "You stole my child, you communist bitch!"