smash and grab
Example Sentences
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Australian police have recovered a trove of stolen Egyptian artefacts and charged a 52-year-old man with a nighttime smash-and-grab at a museum.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
White was on to him like a shot and touched down for a smash-and-grab that sickened England.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
Unlike thieves who carry weapons into museums or use axes to smash-and-grab, art-world scammers rarely get violent—so their prison sentences often get cut short.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent officers to Oakland and Bakersfield, cities that have had immense issues with smash-and-grab retail crime.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
"Probably it was called a smash-and-grab robbery, down here."
From The Enormous Room by Gold, Horace Leonard
