mugger

Example Sentences

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The way my heart clenched up, you might have thought she was a mugger in an alley saying, “I would like to have your wallet.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

A blind BBC reporter managed to stop a mugger from stealing his mobile phone by "instinctively" leaping on them.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2022

“The figure of Black criminality is no longer limited to the mugger or the rioter or the gang member,” said Insa Koch, an anthropologist and lawyer who studies the legislation’s application in Britain.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2022

But only in the movies does the karate student always succeed in beating up the bully or the mugger.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2020

The officers took Beatrice home and offered to help find the mugger.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John