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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024