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
Mr. Otieno was taken into custody on March 3 by Henrico County police, who were responding to a report of breaking and entering from a neighbor.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023
Doubling of concepts is also common: null and void, breaking and entering, pain and suffering, legal and binding.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Like Apple in the press release I quoted earlier, Lexmark clearly saw this as a kind of digital breaking and entering.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James
