How to Use burgle in a Sentence
burgle
verb-
The office of the chief justice of South Africa’s highest court was burgled in March.
— The Economist, 12 July 2017 -
Being spoiled for choice in the means of how to further my dewy lewk agenda is a blessing and a time-burgling curse.
— Sable Yong, Allure, 27 Oct. 2017 -
It was later revealed to belong to a MPD officer whose home was burgled in May this year.
— Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al, 14 Aug. 2019 -
Christopher Knight was a thief who burgled private properties more than a thousand times and robbed their owners of peace of mind.
— National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2017 -
He is also charged with burgling Woods' apartment two weeks earlier, court records show.
— Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 5 Jan. 2018 -
Burglary, Concord Drive: A woman found her home burgled Dec. 12.
— Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 16 Dec. 2017 -
In the past season alone, at least two professional teams were burgled at races in the Netherlands and two more suffered attempted break-ins.
— Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 20 July 2017 -
Odessa A’zion), a young woman with addiction issues who impulsively goes along with the plan of her boyfriend Trevor (Drew Starkey) to burgle a storage unit.
— Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Somehow, Gedney had crept into these quiet, throwaway scenes and burgled them for his camera.
— Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2017 -
The unexpected disarray could have been the sign of a struggle, but Swearingen chalked it up to a break-in, and later filed a police report saying his home had been burgled while he was gone.
— Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2019 -
In 2009, Boyle's parents' Ottawa home was burgled, though bullet holes in the home prompted the authorities to question whether the crime was linked to Boyle's first wife or his father's job as a federal tax judge.
— Author: Mark Dent, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Oct. 2017 -
Certainly pet-store pricing isn’t always top of mind: Some parrot burglars seem to burgle parrots as an afterthought, or lagniappe.
— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022 -
Detectives investigating the shooting found that three teens were burgling the home when they were confronted by the armed homeowner, Hinojos,, police said.
— Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2023 -
Unable to question Diller, authorities can only speculate what motivated him to burgle the museum.
— Fern Reiss, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023 -
He was charged under the Espionage Act and faced 115 years imprisonment, but the case ended in a mistrial because the government illegally gathered evidence (by, among other tactics, burgling his psychiatrist’s office).
— Sam Roberts, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017
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