He might be in better business than robbing you of your house.
Patout, "to accuse the twelve apostles of robbing a diligence, that's the limit.
There's talk of brigandsrobbing diligences; you'll be careful to put the holsters on the saddle.
There had been some robbing along the river, and these men felt uneasy about carrying the money to this place to pay for the sheep.
He was tried for robbing the mails, and was the coolest man in the court room.
You've heard the expression 'robbing Peter to pay Paul.
This particular form of superstition became discredited among respectable people when sharpers got hold of it and used it as an engine for robbing the weak-minded.
Burke found that "in sweeping away those factitious places and secret pensions he would be robbing the Court of its chief implements of corruption and protecting the representative against his chief motive in selling his country.
By burying me in an infamous dungeon and robbing me of my intended wife!
I don't think so, for they say that he fought against some tulisanes one day when they were robbing a house.
I'm not going around robbing my friends who are disappointed in my commercial value.
It was not a district in which, before the siege, any person worth robbing would choose to be abroad after nightfall.
At length came the turn of the two soldiers taken in the act of assaulting androbbing the Spaniard.
They were maltreating and robbing a poor old Spaniard, who, paralysed with fright, was piteously beseeching them to take all that he had, but to do him no harm.
Both robbing all the world, and Robert robbing his friend, and, in the event of danger, leaving him faithfully in the lurch.
He feels but too sensible, that while they are, jure divino, robbing him of his tenth sheaf, they have the diabolical cruelty not to give him credit for all that it will have cost him to make that sheaf grow.
B: You think then that by outraging and robbing the good man who has surrounded his garden and chicken-run with a live hedge, he has been wanting in respect towards the duties of natural law?
It was claimed that Milton was guilty of an infamous imposture in robbing Charles I.
Moving without difficulty among the branches, it seizes many an unfortunate bird in its deadly gripe before its victim can take to flight--robbing also the nest of the eggs within it.
The same naturalist relates that he was one night awoke by his servant telling him that rats were robbing the farina baskets.
Of the gang represented in the illustration as robbing a rich merchant's house, one or two probably are lonins, the rest being thieves in disguise.
Dick was for ever robbingorchards and being chased by irate farmers.
I thought you’d caught them robbing a hen-roost or breaking into a bank.
When I first came to Oakdale I heard some fellows who aren’t reckoned to be particularly bad chaps joking with one another about robbing orchards and plundering somebody’s grape arbors.
As a relief to this gloomy chapter I must tell you of a distinguished Judge who had to sentence a dishonest butler for robbing his master of some silver spoons.
A man was charged with robbing another who was in custody in charge of the police for "welshing.
One can understand a man robbing a bank to obtain means of bestowing pleasure and luxury upon the woman he loves; but Prosper does not love me, he never has loved me.
This examination will prove that I could have no interest in robbing my own safe.
Well, now I will tell you what interest you had in robbing him.
The day of Edie's disappearance tallied exactly with the date of the robbing of the girl by Brassey and the Slogger.
These ships are either well armed, or are protected by Portuguese ships of war, as there are many corsairs or pirates continually cruizing along that coast, robbing and plundering whatever they are able to master.
His chief time of robbing and plundering is in harvest, when, he often falls unexpectedly on the Arabians, invading their lands and carrying away their wheat and barley, employing himself continually in predatory incursions.
They supplied themselves with food by stealing sheep and cattle from the ranches, and by robbing wagons laden with provisions on their way to the mines.
An interesting flyer that we have seen is the frigate bird, also called the man-of-war bird, which appears to me to be a good deal of a pirate, as it makes the most of its living by robbing others.
For two months, however, he had been steadily robbing the cashbox, and by comparing dates the major found to his disgust that the famous lesson respecting Gagneux had only kept him straight for one week!
Accordingly one day when she was settling up she accused the man of robbing her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "robbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banditry; extortion; holdup; predatory; robbery; stealing; theft
