How to Use burglarize in a Sentence
burglarize
verb-
Another complained that police didn’t do anything after his home was burglarized.
— Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024 -
The home the van had been parked in front of was also burglarized.
— Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2018 -
This isn’t the first time Puig’s home has been burglarized.
— Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 3 Nov. 2017 -
The house has not been burglarized and entry was not gained.
— Houston Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018 -
The tusk was on display when the center was burglarized March 8.
— Washington Post, 19 June 2018 -
Two vehicles — one in the garage and one in the driveway — were burglarized, deputies said.
— Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 May 2018 -
Even more bummed to get home after long 36 hours and find out my house was burglarized.
— Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2018 -
Within the first 16 months, the restaurant was burglarized three times.
— Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020 -
Three men tried to burglarize a Coral Gables home Sunday night.
— Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 5 June 2017 -
Two homes on the same block were burglarized on June 13 and reported June 14.
— latimes.com, 20 June 2018 -
The Garretts had a tough first year, as their place was burglarized last summer.
— Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, Lake County News-Sun, 18 June 2018 -
The house was burglarized June 6, the Sheriff's Office said.
— Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 22 June 2018 -
Damn my home in Dallas was just burglarized, called the cops and still waiting on @DallasPD to make a report.
— Nina Mandell, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2017 -
On Tuesday his house in Dallas was burglarized and among the items stolen was a toilet.
— Jeff Maillet, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017 -
The store was burglarized after two suspects threw a rock through the north side window.
— Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018 -
His home was burglarized the same day — something that’s happened at least three times.
— Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2023 -
In just the past few weeks, a black man in New York was accused of burglarizing his own apartment.
— Holly Yan, CNN, 14 May 2018 -
His nutritional store was the first to be burglarized, back on the night of Sept. 28 or the early morning hours of Sept. 29.
— Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017 -
Yates had returned to her Tempe home and found Cahill burglarizing it.
— Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024 -
In December 2021 a man burglarizing the Avants’ home, Aariel Maynor, shot and killed her.
— Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023 -
Lyles called the police for help Sunday morning and told them her home had been burglarized.
— Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017 -
Pack had to watch thieves burglarize the shop on his cellphone on two occasions.
— Matt Bruce, ajc, 12 Mar. 2022 -
That same year, Williams burglarized a home, and spent a stint in jail before his 1998 conviction for robbing the donut shot.
— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024 -
An audio store on the Berlin Turnpike was burglarized this week by suspects who crashed a car through the store’s glass windows.
— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024 -
In late June, the suspect burglarized two gas stations on the same night, the sheriff's office said on Facebook.
— Nancy Daly, Cincinnati.com, 13 July 2018 -
The family was not home and was at a Chicago Bulls game when their home was burglarized, police said.
— Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018 -
The family did not know of anyone who would burglarize their home.
— cleveland, 6 Jan. 2022 -
An investigation determined that the 18-year-old and the two teenagers with him were the same people who had burglarized the school on June 3, Loughran said.
— Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018 -
While living in Fairfield, the family’s home was burglarized and all of EJ’s Christmas presents were stolen.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 22 Apr. 2020 -
The same fraternity was burglarized again the next day, though police did not say whether anything was stolen.
— J.d. Capelouto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
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