burgle

They could bug, burgle and listen to "subjects of interest", to use the jargon.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

"There were guards at duty free as if we were going to burgle it," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2022

“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

Ford’s conversion took England to within five points and they had two minutes to burgle a victory.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2015

“Yes,” I chimed in, joyously, “only, we are going to burgle out, instead of breaking in;” and we then both had a hearty chuckle at this little joke.

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend

They speak a language that burgles and rains from their mouths like water through a pipe.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

Mr Rangarajan was not CEO when the hack happened but says that colleagues described the chaos of discovering the hackers as "feeling like you'd been burgled whilst still inside the house".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

After watching his side burgled in their own home by an increasingly familiar Rangers away Europa League display, the Portuguese landed far more blows on the visitors than his team had managed.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

Mr Rowlands assumed they were burgling a tobacco shop and the numbers referred to cigarettes.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024

The burgling of the psychiatrist’s office has been misunderstood in many accounts of Ellsberg’s life.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023

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

Former welder Caylor told police she had been assaulted but was later charged with burgling her sister's flat and perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2016

I should like to hear," said Jimmy amusedly, as one who draws out an intelligent child, "how you would set about burgling one of those up-town villas.

From The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse