How to Use rob in a Sentence

rob

verb

• The cashier was robbed at gunpoint.
• Someone tried to rob me.
• Many of the things that are fun also rob me of that joy.
  — Bianca Alysse, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• For the love of God, just don’t try to rob the place, alright?
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 18 July 2023
• Pitchford and a friend, Eric Bullins, went to the store to rob it.
  — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
• The man did not have a gun on his person and did not rob Mr. Hero.
  — cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• The man made a few more futile attempts to rob the store.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 8 July 2023
• When Afzal arrived, the two men got in the backseat, pulled a gun, and tried to rob him.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
• Heavy sports betting can rob you of the joy of your team winning.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
• In the spring of 2022, two men were drugged and robbed after leaving gay bars in New York.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
• The injuries robbed him of one of the parts of his game that had NFL teams salivating.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2023
• Brown was able to track down nearly all the tellers who’d been robbed.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2024
• Sadek said about a year and a half ago he was robbed at gunpoint by a team of three robbers.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• Such a change would likely rob the debates of some of their appeal.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• The victim was robbed at knife point on Saturday in the 6800 block of First Avenue North.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• After raping the girl, Inga robbed both teens of their phones and took off.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 June 2024
• But being home alone isn’t as fun when two con men are trying to rob your house.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 5 Dec. 2022
• Jed was skinny even before the years robbed him of muscle and left him slightly hunched.
  — Field & Stream, 18 Jan. 2024
• So, Sandy takes advantage of wealthy men at her casino, and then Clement robs them.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
• Nighttime battles have robbed him of countless nights of sleep.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
• Moon said he feels robbed of what would have been a celebration of the team making the playoffs.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• The first glimpse of it in the movie comes after a tone-setting sequence depicting grave robbing in the dead of night.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
• First Spears was robbed of her childhood, and then she was denied her adulthood.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• But last fall, police say, Bell started trying to rob banks once more.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The suspects allegedly followed the victims to their homes and robbed them, taking their cash and cell phones.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• Unfortunately, it was stolen when the star was robbed in Paris.
  — Briana Draguca, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• But at least Patti wasn’t murdered, at least Barbara hadn’t been robbed.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
  — Zach Dyer, CBS News, 9 May 2024
• Clint and his mom attempt to rob a convenience store, which ends up a disaster.
  — John Archer, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• Left fielder Al Gionfriddo — in what turned out to be his last major league game — raced to the bullpen fence (415 feet from home plate) to rob DiMaggio of the home run.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024