highway robbery
Example Sentences
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“This is highway robbery without a gun. It’s not just us that they’re taking from. It’s our families who struggle to make ends meet and send us money, they are the real victims.”
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2018
What they will receive—or at least, what he wants to offer—is highway robbery.
From Slate • May 23, 2017
Well said..This guy Bauknight has his fingers all over this highway robbery underway...!
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2014
John H. Garvey, president of Catholic University in Washington, recounted the parable of the Good Samaritan who helped a victim of highway robbery, even though the Samaritan was a foreigner in the country.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2013
Many instances of highway robbery by highwaymen who made a profession of robbery might be given; but one or two cases may repay their perusal.
From A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect by Hyde, James Wilson
