(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".
Thieve
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To practice theft; to steal.
Example Sentences:
(1) He shrugs his shoulders and laughs: "And they call us thieves!"
(2) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(3) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(4) Rising numbers of consumers are finding they are subject to thieves who tamper with their gas and electricity meters to redirect some of their supply.
(5) My suspicion is there was something [the thieves] were specifically after, otherwise why would they have taken some and left others?” The stolen goods would range from family heirlooms, personal jewellery and dealers’ stock, he said.
(6) Capitalism has brought job insecurity and economic instability, and given power to those who are good at thieving.
(7) The agreement that the International Atomic Energy Agency reached with Iran is a pact among thieves.
(8) In Thursday's robbery the thieves all fled the scene within minutes.
(9) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
(10) US officers in Daytona Beach in 2010 were able to prevent a car burglary after one of the thieves "butt-dialed" the police halfway through the crime.
(11) They were soon able to verify their authenticity and, retracing the paintings' steps, they decided that the works in all probability were taken by the thieves by train from Paris to Turin, but were abandoned on board, possibly during border checks.
(12) Within hours of their death, Egyptian authorities accused them of being part of a gang of thieves that targeted foreigners, and an alleged house raid linked them to a heinous act : the torture and murder of an Italian researcher named Giulio Regeni .
(13) The activity of burglars more often then the thieves' one goes over into the night.
(14) "Did you expect something different from these crooks and thieves?
(15) Surely, she of all people doesn’t need to be told what happened to the Labour party in Scotland when, during the independence referendum, it fell among thieves and started spending too much time with social delinquents?
(16) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .
(17) 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.
(18) They exhibited no wider cause or motivation beyond miserable thieving.
(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) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.