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UK
/hˈaʊsbɹeɪkɪŋ/
]
NOUN
- trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent
How To Use housebreaking In A Sentence
- However, other aggravated robberies, street robbery, and housebreaking had increased, said Selebi.
- Oh Gawd, don't tell me you're going housebreaking again! A CONVICTION OF GUILT
- He had been arrested for more than 40 crimes in the previous year - for offences that included housebreaking, theft and vandalism.
- He has been an accessory before and after the crime of housebreaking.
- They had been convicted on charges including murder, robbery, escaping from custody, possession of explosives and weapons, housebreaking and theft.
- According to Mamabolo most of the escapees were being held for stock theft, housebreaking and theft and other petty crimes but they ‘should still be considered as dangerous’.
- He had done five years for housebreaking.
- The types of delinquency ranged from low-level stuff like being rowdy on a street corner, to theft from home and school, up to housebreaking, joyriding and robbery.
- you'll rue it, rue it, rue it!" and he went into a coil of lawyer's threats against the invaders, talking of brander-irons and gallows, hame-sucken and housebreaking. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- In 1947, he was sentenced to five years in prison for a number of cases of housebreaking and larceny, but there was never enough evidence to even try him for the Windsor robbery.