How to Use cat burglar in a Sentence

cat burglar

noun

• Wendy is going full-on cat burglar, snatching the spare key to their old Chicago home and making a mess.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• With the apparent agility of a cat burglar, the raccoons are thought to have stealthily gained access to the bank via its roof.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2020
• Batman tussles with cat burglar Selina Kyle (Zoe Kravitz) and also takes on a gang of goons ready to throw down.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2020
• Florida Naples: Deputies have a cat burglar in custody.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
• Two cameras—one pointing up from the rover, and one pointing down from inside of the sky crane—show the moment that Perseverance drops out of the crane like a cat burglar.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2021
• The 1994 film is about a cat burglar and a dysfunctional family, according to IMDB.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
• In the comics, she’s generally been portrayed as a master cat burglar and skilled fighter whose arsenal includes a whip and clawed gloves.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Heck, if building a catwalk is less expensive than housing a cat burglar the county jail should start hosting fashion shows right now.
  — George Mathis, ajc, 7 Sep. 2017
• Like a master cat burglar, Villa broke through Liverpool's high defensive line with ease.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 5 Oct. 2020
• Black Cat is an acrobatic cat burglar whose real name is Felicia Hardy.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2018
• One is a masked vigilante brutalizing the criminal underworld of Gotham City, while the other is a seductive cat burglar with lots of felines.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Dec. 2021
• But skillful research and due diligence are not qualities confined to historians (or cat burglars).
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Djinn — a literal magical being, an actual giant — arrives with the silence of a cat burglar, for example.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
• After firefighters secured a precautionary perimeter, the curious cat burglar slipped inside a house and workers trapped it.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024