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Example sentences for "burglary"

Lexicographically close words:
burghs; burglar; burglaries; burglarious; burglars; burgle; burgled; burgling; burgomaster; burgomasters
  1. Needy, and having recourse to expedients, de Balincourt planned the burglary mentioned above.

  2. Investigations had shown that Allaire had been concerned in a burglary with a friend of his, called Tardivel, and a red-haired woman called Batifolier.

  3. As a matter of fact, I had only heard of this attempted burglary by accident.

  4. The latter had been marked out to him as the instigator of a burglary which was to take place at that time to the detriment of Mme.

  5. At any rate, the fact seems sufficiently established that the initial steps of the burglary that had been planned were carried out, since skeleton keys were tried by Fontaine, on the door of Mme.

  6. Sauerwein continued: "Two or three years ago, there was an attempt at burglary in this very house.

  7. Suppose that in a moment of weakness you had relations with a man of doubtful morality, who, at some time might be capable of burglary and 'plunder and violence,' in order to obtain money.

  8. This burglary was to be committed in circumstances which are related in the dossier which M.

  9. He remembered the attempted burglary and the fact that M.

  10. In July 1892 burglary was committed in her house in South Street.

  11. And that was what the application of Anarchist theories resulted in--burglary and filth, pending a favourable hour for wholesale pillage and murder!

  12. The public prosecutor will use that farcical burglary as a crushing argument when he asks the jury for Salvat's head.

  13. Yes, that burglary at the Princess's house has greatly distressed me.

  14. Millsom and Fowler were being watched by special instructions from Scotland Yard all through January and right up to the time they committed the burglary and murder at Muswell Hill.

  15. The prisoner had given information that a burglary was to be committed, and had, "in the interests of justice," taken part in it himself.

  16. Presumably the burglary trade has shared in the general depression, for the family are at dinner when we enter, and it consists of nothing more appetizing than bread and cheese.

  17. Indeed the arrests for burglary reported by the Police Commissioners occur almost exclusively in this class.

  18. The news of a robbery or burglary is flashed all over New York and the adjoining country before a man has fairly secured his plunder.

  19. He burned to add another scalp to his collection, and this Pavilion burglary seemed peculiarly suited to his talents.

  20. In the first place,' he began, 'it has been conclusively proved that the burglary was the work of an unskilful hand.

  21. In the second place, it has been proved that you were at the time of the burglary in great need of money.

  22. We had a burglary at my place once,' began Reade, of Philpott's House.

  23. I suppose, Mrs MacArthur, your son has told you that we have had a burglary at the School?

  24. And, in the excitement of these more personal matters, Tony entirely forgot to impart the news of the Pavilion burglary to him.

  25. You are accused of nothing less than this unfortunate burglary of the prizes for the Sports.

  26. They occasionally take to burglary for a change.

  27. Burglary by Wudders may usually be traced to them, if careful observations are made of the breach in the wall.

  28. The night master and Mr. Bonstone went to New York to warn the police about the planned burglary of the jeweller’s store, I had been secretly disappointed when they let Mr. Johnson follow the affair up, and we went home.

  29. I didn’t want a burglary to take place, or rogues to be apprehended, but if the thing just had to be done, I wanted to see how burglars and police went about it.

  30. That miniature alone is insured against burglary for seven or eight hundred pounds.

  31. James had not found any of the lost things; but he had bought some pearls the day before the burglary at Mrs. Ellsworth's.

  32. Perhaps, indirectly, she was responsible for the burglary at that house.

  33. He has a horror of burglars, and won't even stop at the Archdeacon's since they had a burglary a few years ago.

  34. Three temporary ones were got in as soon as possible from some agency; and last night (four days, I believe, after they were installed) a burglary was committed in the house.

  35. She knew they were speaking of the burglary at Mrs. Ellsworth's house.

  36. It was an account of the burglary at Mrs. Ellsworth's house, which he had been reading.

  37. Knight had tried to console her for the loss she'd suffered through the burglary a fortnight before by making her a present of half a dozen new rings.

  38. And, now she thought of it, what a queer burglary it had been!

  39. Groynes, for his fleshly burglary of late, 381.

  40. Occasionally he varied the dull monotony of simple burglary by truck-hopping.

  41. Man cannot live by burglary alone, and Butch was not without his gregarious side.

  42. It isn't as if we arranged a burglary for you, Auntie.

  43. Evidently the story of the burglary had got about.

  44. It was plain that Burtwell and Conny Degger had committed the burglary without other assistance.

  45. The accusation that he had helped in the bank burglary might, in the end, prove ridiculous.

  46. Still, and nevertheless, every bank burglary is not satisfactorily explained nor the burglars captured.

  47. Mebbe there ain't been no real burglary at all.

  48. The next instant the suspicion would attack her from another angle and his possible connection with the bank burglary would expand until she was fairly terror-stricken.

  49. She heard nothing more about the bank burglary that day, or what was being done regarding it.

  50. If Ralph told me himself he had committed a burglary I should not believe it.

  51. Even if he had no part in the bank burglary (and of course he had not) Lorna could not absolve him of possible disgrace.

  52. They planned a burglary for the following night.

  53. It was this informality of burglary that led to the regrettable extinction of two promising beginners at Hammerpond Park.

  54. The others are about as likely to commit a burglary as I should be to rob a hen roost.

  55. There was a burglary here between three and four o'clock.

  56. Sir Bertram," he began, "you have heard no doubt of the burglary at the Great House.

  57. As I think I told you, they seem to have come across some one who can swear that they saw a man leaving the Hall last night, just before the burglary took place.

  58. Perhaps you think I committed the burglary myself," he suggested.

  59. In connection, I presume, with the burglary at the Great House," Henry observed.

  60. Now he is up and swore that the night of the burglary he seen some one leave the Hall by the oak library, which is Mr. Gregory's private way almost, twenty minutes or half an hour before the burglary were committed.

  61. The burglary last night was undertaken to secure it.

  62. This is a country village in Norfolk and the burglary happened as long ago as last night.

  63. For if burglary were dealt with only on the footing of an attempt, the whole crime would have to be complete at the moment of breaking into the house.

  64. An indictment for burglary which charges that [75] the defendant broke into a dwelling-house and stole certain property, is just as good as one which alleges that he broke in with intent to steal.

  65. I've never heard of a burglary anywhere in this region of country.

  66. Before the sun was an hour high Prairieville was greatly excited over the news of the burglary at Lakeside and the subsequent arrest of O'Rourke on suspicion of having been concerned in it.

  67. Surely that alibi he had sworn to on Phelim's trial for the Lakeside burglary was a lie, and what motive could he have had for thus perjuring himself unless he were a party to the theft and a sharer in the spoils?

  68. They did that burglary at Bennington's, in Oxford Street, last night.

  69. Treeton pledged Mr. and Mrs. Dean and their servant to secrecy, therefore all that was known in Cromer was that there had been an attempted burglary at Beacon House.

  70. How much do they give for burglary in this state?

  71. More than slightly to Lanyard's surprise he received no quiet invitation to the captain's quarters to be interrogated concerning the burglary in Stateroom 27.

  72. They had been quiet enough between their first stroke in the dark and their last, between the burglary of Cecelia Brooke's stateroom the first night out and those murderous attacks on Bartholomew and Thackeray.

  73. And what conceivable chain of circumstances linked their fortunes with his, and that double burglary of the first night out with this murderous assault of to-night?

  74. In short, he owned that it had been no other than himself who had committed the burglary for which Thaddeus Lasher was doing time.

  75. In a confession that he made he exonerated Samson Newell from any participation in or knowledge of the burglary for which his reputation had so long suffered, stating in what manner he had himself committed the deed.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burglary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.