Our relation to things outside of ourselves forms, and at the same time robs us of, our existence, and yet we have to do our best to adapt ourselves to circumstances; for to isolate one's self is also not advisable.
The prodigalrobs his heir, the miser robs himself.
How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and destructive a vice is ambition, which, by undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true honour!
The pleasure we feel in criticising robs us of that of being deeply moved by very beautiful things.
It is better and kinder to flog a man to his work than to leave him idle till he robs and flog him afterwards.
And now comes this here Quintana and robs my girlie.
I'll kill any man thatrobs her or that helps rob her.
A true man will not join anything that in any way abridges his freedom or robs him of his rights.
The workman is equally bound to do his work properly, and in neglecting to do so he robs his employer.
If he does not do so he robs the workman as much as if he stole the money from his pocket.
The law which gives the husband and the master entire control of the person and earnings of each; the law thatrobs each of the rights and liberties that every "free white male citizen" takes to himself as God-given.
A mother is denied the custody of her own child; a most barbarous and unjust law, which robs her of the child placed in her care by the great Creator himself.
Now we believe this expression to be full of profoundest truth, if we receive it as a moral revelation; but orthodoxy reduces it to a mystical enigma, and robs it of meaning and of value.
The missionary cannot wind and slur the tunes on it, the way the old folks have learned to sing them, and it robs the singing of its old-time sweetness and power.
The thief robs himself; the adulterer pollutes himself; and the murderer inflicts a deeper wound upon himself than that which slays his victim.
A paltry thief whorobs children--even of their bread and butter; or, a caged-bird of its lump sugar!
Or is it to the ranke robber That robs upon the main?
He taunts her with her weakness until she robs her father.
Sexual love is never spiritualised; it drags man into the illusions of Maya, it robs him of strength of purpose, of intellectual freedom.
Disobedience robs the soul of the sweet sense of Christ's indwelling.
It is the thought of the Father that gives peace, because it robs life of its terrors and death of its sting.
There are dangers, but cheerful courage robs them of terror.
It is a base form of stealing whichrobs a church treasury as Judas did.
And herobs and murders because he loves himself and does not care for others; acting in a different way, but on the same selfish principle with the owner of the ox; and on the very same principle is he held responsible.
He is worse than a beast, and is a self-murderer, who drinks to others' good health, and robs himself of his own.
A highwayman robs you, or an assassin invades your dwelling at midnight and slaughters your wife and children.
The highwayman has no malice against him he robs and murders, nor does he desire his death, but his money; and if he can get the money, he does not care.
This truth is so simple that the very ease with which we acquiesce in it robs it of its power.
Whoever thinks a story gains by the prodigious, by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "robs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
