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robber

[ US /ˈɹɑbɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɒbɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence

How To Use robber In A Sentence

  • He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
  • Even the sight of a gibbet, if it assured him that one robber was safely disposed of by justice, never failed to remind him how many remained still unhanged. Rob Roy
  • A senior detective who led the hunt for two armed robbers behind a series of terrifying raids across Bradford today told of the desperate race against time to catch them before someone was shot.
  • Another 20million was thought to be loot from crime such as robberies. The Sun
  • One of the robbers stood on the victim's head while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a credit card and £30 cash.
  • The teen was committed to DYRS last year, the source said, after being "adjudicated," or found guilty, in Family Court of an armed robbery. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
  • Police have ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing.
  • Her brother's doing a ten-year stretch for armed robbery.
  • A Shandean fate overtook his body, which was taken by grave-robbers, recognized at an anatomy lecture in Cambridge, and secretly returned to its grave.
  • The robbery suspect broke away from the lockup.
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