breaking and entering
Example Sentences
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Now, after breaking and entering the dwarfs’ home, Zegler doesn’t spend this iteration of “Whistle While You Work” tidying up with birds, squirrels and bunnies — she makes the men scrub their own damned floors.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025
Squatting is legal is Australia, but laws prohibiting breaking and entering or trespass - remaining on private property when instructed to leave - still apply.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024
Doubling of concepts is also common: null and void, breaking and entering, pain and suffering, legal and binding.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Kent Covington spent eight months in a North Carolina prison in 1974 for breaking and entering, and larceny, and later joined the church.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2018
They would ignore his charges, because they were based on unprovable suspicions ... ignore him or arrest him for breaking and entering.
From Forget Me Nearly by Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)
