It would be good enough fun to break into a bustling dwelling and pinch the plate when the folk were at dinner, but to burgle emptiness and silence meant a fight with the terrors in a man's soul.
The pile towered above me like a mausoleum, and I reflected that it must take some nerve to burglean empty house.
I was trying to burgle this escritoire in an amateur way.
A mercenary burglar would naturally burglethings out of a house after he had burgled himself in, but a generous-hearted burglar would just as naturally un-burgle things into a house and then un-burgle himself out.
You don't believe anybody would un-burgle a house, I guess," said Billy.
Each house he un-burgles tempts him to un-burgle two.
In order to un-burgle one house he burgles another.
To burgle his house is no more than to forcibly take his pocket-book--an action in which you were prepared to aid me.
Watson, I mean to burgle Milverton's house to-night.
And that's the man who thinks he can burgle a house!
Adam Worth decided to burgle it, and to secure a wax impression of the key of the front door he called three times within a fortnight to pawn certain articles.
Adam Worth adapted himself to any circumstances that arose, but behind the smooth face there was an evil soul, always planning attacks on society, always on the lookout to thieve and burgle and forge.
Why did he want Hill's assistance to burgle a practically unprotected house?
Get rid of the servants, Hill, and we'll burgle his house.
Kemp declared that the reason he had declined to have anything to do with the project to burgle Riversbrook was that he felt sure Hill would squeak if the police threatened him when they came to investigate the burglary.
He sends for Hill, whom he had known in gaol, and whom he hadn't seen since, to confide in him that it is his intention to burgle his employer's house.
My attempt to burgle you on the Gigantic was not so successful as to tempt me to repeat the performance.
To burgle his house is no more than to forcibly take his pocketbook--an action in which you were prepared to aid me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burgle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
