burgle
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They could bug, burgle and listen to "subjects of interest", to use the jargon.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025
“You make it as hard as possible for burglars in hopes that they look for some other house to burgle, but it’s impossible to ever completely secure your house.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2019
William "Bill" Lincoln, 60, denies being part of the conspiracy to burgle the safety desposit, in central London.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2015
Ford’s conversion took England to within five points and they had two minutes to burgle a victory.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2015
No, let the brutal burglar burgle; Whilst sentiment will calmly gurgle Bland platitudes, but not attack That sacred thing, the burglar's back!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various
They speak a language that burgles and rains from their mouths like water through a pipe.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.
From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Here in America, when a man burgles your residence, you go and confide in a detective, who keeps your secret and gets another detective to help him.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
Kelce's home was burgled on 7 October 2024 when he was away playing a game with the Kansas City Chiefs.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
But while Naden left in his wake a string of burgled properties and makeshift camps – including at a zoo – there was no trace of Freeman.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
Security company GardaWorld, whose Sylmar facility was burgled on Easter, has become a major player in cash logistics, an opaque — and growing — field.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024
The burgled facility, hemmed in on one side by the active train tracks, is owned by World Oil Corp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Before me, Lelia had come off a string of men who made her feel steadily sorry and confused and burgled.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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The burgling of the psychiatrist’s office has been misunderstood in many accounts of Ellsberg’s life.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023
Co-defendant O'Shay Swan, 42, from Winson Green Road, Birmingham, denies burgling Mr Varlow's property between 10 and 13 November and committing fraud in relation to the use of a bank card on 12 November.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2022
But, she says, “I’m not using my garden and the wood beyond my cottage as a sort of green Tesco, burgling myself some green serotonin and dopamine. It’s much more of a two-way relationship.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2020
She is charged with burgling the home of Emily Cox, a researcher with whom Mr Hemming fathered a child in 2005.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2011
But I don't cotton to it myself," he added quickly, "not the burgling, I don't.
From Harding's luck by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar