How to Use burglar in a Sentence

burglar

noun

• The burglars took the cash box out of the machine and fled.
  — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 10 July 2018
• Motion sensors can’t tell the difference between your pet or a burglar.
  — Diane Cowen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 July 2018
• Lavinia the badger has a problem: A burglar is plundering her vegetable garden.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• Like burglars who pull the fire alarm and, in the ensuing chaos, ransack the cash register, the hackers entered through a hole of their own creation.
  — Benjamin Wofford, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
• In August 2005, a burglar broke a window in the museum's back door and entered.
  — Andrea Park, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2018
• Authorities said all but two of the targeted cars in the June cases had car doors unlocked prior to the burglar’s arrival.
  — Rafael Guerrero, Naperville Sun, 3 July 2018
• The burglar eventually escaped the store through the back door, running right into police officers waiting for him.
  — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 12 July 2018
• The would-be burglar appears to be a light-skinned black or Hispanic man with a distinctive tattoo on his right arm, including stars and the number 5, a surveillance picture shows.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 11 July 2018
• At that point, the burglar was shot and fell to the ground.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• For the young burglar with the dog, this is a bridge too far.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• The burglars then fled the house and drove away in a dark colored SUV.
  — Connor Van Ligten, azcentral, 29 Apr. 2020
• The burglars found the store’s safe, cracked into it, and stole $1,500 in cash.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• The four-legged burglar was caught on the deputy's bodycam.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2020
• The burglar was described as a white man, about 5′11 and very thin.
  — Daily Southtown Staff, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• The second call is a man believed to be the burglar again.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The second call was a man believed to be the burglar again.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• One burglar walked to an office and forced open the locked door.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2019
• None of the burglars were armed, Davies said, and there were no injuries.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Two homes on the same block were the targeted by burglars on the same day.
  — latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• And the third prompt was a short phrase, the kind a burglar might scribble down in a hurry.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• In 2021, a burglar shot Jackie and a bodyguard in the Avants’ home.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
• The burglar caused a lot of damage inside the bank, Foxx said.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
• The group then shot at the officer, who fired back as the burglars ran away.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Video shows that the case was covered before the burglar broke in and ripped it off.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2020
• The burglar was able to break down the door and enter the room, threatening them.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2022
• With Smith no longer standing over him, the burglar jumped up and ran to the bedroom.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• The burglar ran into the backyard and fell into the pool.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2019
• The burglar had forced entry through the back door of the residence.
  — Cheryl Higley, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2019
• An armed California homeowner shot at a group of would-be burglars who broke into his house in a Los Angeles neighborhood Monday, police say.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 9 July 2024
• Throughout the movie, McCallister staves off burglars and exhibits his imaginative survival instincts.
  — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024