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.

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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.
The chase scene that follows is intercut with brief vignettes showing the bank officials glorying in the publicity the robbery has created.
Investigators have yet to establish a motive, but a failed robbery attempt is a likely reason, Moen said.
As he learns, the murders were a cover up for the diamond robbery that took place that night.
It is not only the bank robbers who treat the victims badly.
`Samuel Byrd, progenitor and jokester, was supposed to have been the classic roistering robber baron," Livvy said. DEATH OF A NYMPH
Police still searching for the masked robbers who snatched the national treasures.
Bank robberies, burglaries and muggings are reported almost daily in the press.
The unclaimed jewellery was part of the estimated ￡60m haul taken from the Knightsbridge Security deposit box robbery in 1987.
I can't say it makes a lot of sense, in a lot of situations it's the intimidation factor not the number of rounds that an armed robber is going for. Michigan Hunter Rescued, Then Charged
Robbery, which also includes carjackings, across the division has been reduced by more than 50 per cent.
They knew that several clerks lived in the shop and they felt that they would have to kill them in order to assure a successful robbery.
He was a liar and a robber in business; she had heard the Minister for Business Affairs describe him that way to Philip. MURDER SONG
The incident came close on the heels of a series of robbery detections made by four police stations of South Mumbai early last morning.
During the 1976-83 period, operations included the assassination of police informers and perceived quislings, bank robberies and attacks on the security forces and police stations.
A gang of robbers in Japan stole R2,7million in a bank hold-up in Fukuoka, then caught a bullet train.
The police man covered the robber with a pistol.
He had been sent there for committing robbery at knifepoint. Times, Sunday Times
Her brother's doing a ten-year stretch for armed robbery.
In one version the bandits and their boss join the imperial forces and from then on fight robbers and bandits in the name of law and order.
The police followed the robbers to the airport but then the trail went cold.
Thanks to our wonderful European Union open borders, any rapist, armed robber, child-trafficker, drug dealer or fraudster from a member state can walk right in. Doughnuts and Diversity; the essential ingredients of modern British policing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
At times came robbers and thieves, at times came diseases among the beasts and shortness of food, once the country was worried by a pack of boar-hounds he helped to kill; he went through many inconsecutive, irrelevant adventures. The War in the Air
In some areas nearly all robbery and burglary is drug related to pay for the next fix.
Can you describe the robber's physical characteristics?
Police are treating the horrific crime as robbery. The Sun
Those close to the robbers claim major bribes were given to police by those who got away with it. The Sun
About a hundred brains that had been stored in glass jars in a basement on campus have disappeared, prompting fears of a great brain robbery. Times, Sunday Times
Julia Grant socialized with robber barons and was vilified for her role in a gold-market scandal.
The armed robbers forced their way into the house on Monday at 7pm. Times, Sunday Times
Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
The defendant argued that any liability which he had, extended only from his breach of duty until the armed robbery.
The police car was gaining ground on the robbers.
Compare this to the roughly 16, 000 murders, 89,000 rapes, 441,000 robberies, and 834,000 assaults and tell me whether a gun or a fire extinguisher is more paranoid. The Volokh Conspiracy » Major legal win for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
Our lone female antiheroine not only falls for the student protester, but she also agrees to help him with a robbery in order to help fund an all out war on the corrupt police. Remembering Yasuharu Hasebe (1932-2009)
The commissioner of London's Metropolitan police force says more than 30 per cent of robberies and muggings involve mobile phones.
From here, I went steadily downhill and, when I was 19, I was sent to prison for theft, assault and numerous robberies.
The victim of the motorcycle theft can be heard cursing the robber as he lies bleeding in the road by the ditched bike. Times, Sunday Times
In 1976 he was awarded the Scott Medal for bravery after tackling two armed robbers following a raid on a post office.
He asked the robber to let him keep the seal from his fob watch. Times, Sunday Times
A 16-year-old boy who carried out two knifepoint robberies after smoking cannabis has been named and shamed by a judge.
The result was a one-third reduction in the number of robberies and a general diminution of other anti-social incidents.
The police are still smarting from their failure to prevent the robbery.
` ` See what tidings that horn tells us of --- to announce, I ween, some hership* and robbery which has been done Ivanhoe
Whereas in times when there was some order and government the travellers might be safe in the open roads, and the robbers were forced to lurk in the by-ways, no, on the contrary, the robbers insulted on the open roads without check, and the honest travellers were obliged to sculk and walk through by-ways, in continual frights. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run. The Short-story
He pleaded guilty to three robberies, kidnap and one offence of aggravated burglary.
Davis also faces three other special circumstances in connection with the murder charge: kidnapping, burglary and robbery.
In the last three years the division has registered 700 cases of crimes, including dacoity, robbery and murder.
Nine people were charged with burglary, three with robbery and two with aggravated assault on a police officer.
The robbers wanted safe conduct to the airport for themselves and their hostages.
'Now am I well lighted here,' he said, 'for this is the very goblet which thy robber knight Sir Lancelot reaved from my brother, Sir King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
It's barefaced robbery asking such a high price for that old bicycle!
The compartments have the added protection of three to four cross-bars running through all the bogies - to prevent robbery, snatching or the entry of miscreants through the window.
Just as he plans a railyard robbery with Bronco, he enters into a touching relationship with the 15-year-old Irene, whose father is serving time for armed robbery. Bronco Bullfrog
The robbers seize the cash, jump into fast getaway cars and drive off - through holes cut earlier into the side barriers of the motorway. Times, Sunday Times
The bottle he cradled almost stereotypically was clutched closer against his chest as if they were robbers. THE LAST RAVEN
Moments of calm and serenity are interspersed with bursts of extreme violence which increase in frequency as a robbery gone wrong takes its toll. The Sun
To reign until a filthier scoundrel than he arises; then he perishes and in his place the leather-seller appears, the Paphlagonian robber, the bawler, who roars like a torrent. The Knights
Three children were taken hostage during the bank robbery.
A gang of bank robbers come up with a plan for a lucrative armoured car robbery, but a determined police officer is closing in on them. The Sun
He has spent the past three months in Florida, ostensibly for medical treatment, but in actual fact to avoid prosecution for a series of notorious armed robberies.
With such enormous amounts of money being processed through hawala brokers they have become frequent targets of armed robbers. Times, Sunday Times
HOFFER: And it has a kind of muckrake -- or a sort of -- you know, muckrakers at the beginning of the 20th century were attacking the robber barons, the great industries, for their abuses, the way they abused their workers, they way they abused public trust, and so on. Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin
Earlier this week we reported four violent robberies involving elderly women when thieves tried to snatch handbags.
A guard was hit with a metal bar as a bungling robber snatched an empty cash box.
She has given the police a very detailed/full description of the robber.
Vidal D. Mason, 23, will serve the term consecutive to a five-year sentence imposed for violating the terms of his parole from an armed robbery conviction in 2006, according to online court records. JSOnline.com
Of all the sea-robbers who sailed from their rocky dwelling-places by the fiords of Norway, none enjoyed higher renown than Rolf, called the ganger, or walker, as tradition relates, because his stature was so gigantic that, when clad in full armor, no horse could support his weight, and he therefore always fought on foot. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
For the latter part of the power of the prerogative, or that whereby they are the supreme judicatory of this nation, and of the provinces of the same, the cognizances of crimes against the majesty of the people, such as high treason, as also of peculation, that is, robbery of the treasury, or defraudation of the commonwealth, appertains to this tribe. The Commonwealth of Oceana
The bank was carefully cased by the bandits before the robbery.
He confessed to other crimes subsequent to the bank robbery.
The two robbers raid a shop in broad daylight and nick a manger stuffed full of rubies and emeralds. The Sun
After refusing to leave the cell, one inmate, a cocaine and heroin addict serving seven years for violent robberies, headbutted the officer.
A robber who bungled a post office raid left police the easiest of clues.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
He is charged with possession of a gun with intent to commit a robbery.
A 53-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were last night charged with receiving stolen property in connection with the robbery.
But while she was talking to fans inside, the robber was busy plundering her unlocked car in nearby Barker's Pool car park.
For supervillains, a costume typically serves the same purpose as a ski mask for a regular bank robber.
Stealing without administering fear is called larceny, stealing by administering fear is called robbery, the keyword here is “steal.” O.J. Trial: Prosecution testimony denied
DARIEN -- Ben Malloy, the 21-year-old son of Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, turned himself in to Darien police Wednesday evening after learning they had a warrant for his arrest in connection with an attempted robbery over drugs. Greenwich Time Most Viewed
In scandal, as in robbery,the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
She grappled with the bank robber, but was thrown to the ground.
All my heroes were bank robbers. Times, Sunday Times
A 33-year-old man was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery.
Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in “Waverley,” were the characters he delighted in. Waverley
The robbery may have been carried out with the help of a bent policeman.
The bank robbers wore masks throughout the raid.
Inside the bank building, five robbers dressed in black cloaks and Halloween masks upheld a reign of terror over the helpless customers and bank tellers trapped inside.
In a July 29th, 1971 robbery of the Banker's Trust, the accused was to act as the wheelman.
Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
Armed robberies have spiked dramatically over the past year.
Sure, the men behind the robbery looked pretty clever in the immediate aftermath of the heist.
Defending, Andrew Stranex suggested that the 13-year-old boy had made an honest mistake over the robber's identity.
He was arrested in 1979 over a bungled post office robbery and got two years. The Sun
Mr Cash said, Jack has sought love to overcome his grief at the loss of Jade, and while in remand has had a whirlwind courtship with his new love, his cellmate armed robber 'Reamer' McGee on C Block. Archive 2009-04-01
In this exploration of armed hold-ups, convicted armed robbers speak candidly about how they conduct their crimes and about the terror that they deliberately create.
Narrated in a high piping voice, the story concerns a police chief who pursues a robber into a church.
When arrests were made stolen property was recovered that belonged to two victims of a robbery in the town centre.
He is a robber baron who made his money through despicable behavior and monopolism.
There had been at least two robberies at his shops during which items worth 500,000 are understood to have been taken. Times, Sunday Times
That survey, the groups have to drive robbery, an immediate task force on the Tanggu District, car rental industry, small and medium-sized hotels and pawnbroking a comprehensive Mopai.
The bank conducted its own internal investigation into the robbery.
Their descendants were distinguished by various praenomina and cognomina [285], but rejected by common consent the praenomen of (193) Lucius, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder. De vita Caesarum
The robbers do not expect to find the new owners already moved in, but are not about to abort their mission.
The robbery took place at Aker Brygge, an upscale shopping centre and apartment complex on the Oslo waterfront.
Yes | No | Report from bighunter wrote 10 weeks 6 days ago or if you just want a gun joke, some police have there guns drawed at a robber there first reaction, boom, boom, then freeze Greatest movie line ever
The robbers were lying in wait for the rich traveler.
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
We speak with victims of armed robbery about coping with the physical and mental aftermath of a hold-up; their role in criminal investigations, and getting access to crimes compensation.
HONOWITZ: Yes, I mean, the source and what I've read is -- is the bottom line is -- people that were up from this gentleman Gonzalez, who they say is the shooter, knew what was going on and the people lower were just kind of lassoed into this robbery. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2009
Police recognized Moll and arrested him as a suspect in two grocery store robberies, also involving getaway cabs.
She was a robber baroness; she dwelt in a rocky "fastness" -- whatever that was -- surrounded by a crew of outlaws as desperate as any that ever drew cutlass and dagger, and she ruled them not only by native strength of character, but also by the aid of other forces, for she was on friendly terms with the more prominent wood sprites, fairies, and the like, and they brought her wisdom. Flowing Gold
Three of those arrested have previous convictions for armed robbery and murder.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 3: 40 p.m. MENOMINEE -- Further charges may be brought against a Menominee man, recently arrested for an armed robbery incident in Marinette. TV6 - TV6 News
The robbers made off with $125 in cash, a $300 gold watch, two jackknives, and three lead pencils, everything Twain had in his pockets. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
He was arrested in 1979 over a bungled post office robbery and got two years. The Sun
She has given the police a very detailed/full description of the robber.
TACOMA - Robberies, assaults and other crimes dipped in a large part of Tacoma in February after police and federal agents cracked down on several reputed members of the city's oldest - and allegedly most active - street gang. The Olympian Online -- YahooNews
Marquis Dillard (d.o.b. 7-15-89) wanted for robbery with a firearm that occurred during a drug deal. ABC7 News
It's an armed robbery but not in the conventional sense most people would recognise. Times, Sunday Times
The seat of government is a long, self-imposing, hubristic strip of robber-baron parthenons, built, oxymoronically, like banks and temples. Times, Sunday Times
Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.
Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
It is understood police had the suspects under surveillance for weeks before the robbery.
Robbery is now an everyday occurrence.
He was also handed a 10-year concurrent sentence for robbery.
I waiting impatiently for the bell to ring so I could run out to meet my friends at the playground and play cops and robbers.
I do indeed find political aspects to some robberies, but note that most were not directed against symbolic targets.
The drop in house prices may be heftier than the actual stolen goods: a doubled-up version of daylight robbery. Times, Sunday Times
As the robber was talking, a vaguely humanoid figure leaped from the rooftop of the adjacent building and crept into the bank.
If the police were trying to fight a wave of arsons or bank robberies, it would be wrong, and make no sense, to focus on blacks or Asians or Mexicans or any particular ethnic/racial group, because being of such a particular group has nothing to do with thecrime. The Volokh Conspiracy » AZ Boycott and the Constitution:
Turns out he'd been caught between an armed robbery and some police that just happened to be driving by.
All the evidence collected so far points to robbery as the motive of the crime.
He has previous convictions for theft, robbery and assault causing actual bodily harm.
Tuthmosis III's mummy was rewrapped following damage by tomb robbers, then reburied in Deir el-Bahari.
The robbers then ransacked the premises and stole £3,000 worth of cigarettes and a substantial amount of cash.
The personal accounts that I have read indicate that a taxi robbery, even if you are unhurt, is a very traumatic experience. Mexico City taxi robberies
Are you going to be a bank robber? Times, Sunday Times
She continues, “That made it jumpier, more the style of this ragamuffin group of bank robbers.” STAR
This turkey's loaded An armed robber who tried to steal a car was foiled when a shopper beat him round the head with a frozen turkey. Times, Sunday Times
Ransacked: Ania Cerelczak outside the gallery in Great Guildford Street Bungling thief drops mobile during ram-raid at gallery Robbers smashed their van into a London art gallery in a ram-raid that caused thousands of pounds of damage. Evening Standard - Home
The robbers drove off in a stolen vehicle.
An armed robber is appealing against his conviction claiming that he was high on a mind-bending cocktail of drugs when he confessed to police.
He was deported on a court order following a conviction for armed robbery.
They were said to have made it look as though she died during a bungled robbery. The Sun
Smith was charged with three kidnappings, three robberies and three firearms offences relating to alleged incidents on the day.
Robbery was believed to be the motive for the killing.
Co Durham in England, after one of the busiest weekends in the racing calendar when the terrifying eight-minute robbery took place. Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
Govinda was shot dead in a police action in 2005 after he was named an accused in a rape and murder case, committed during a robbery, at Mulki in Mangalore. The Hindu - Front Page
He has spent the past three months in Florida, ostensibly for medical treatment, but in actual fact to avoid prosecution for a series of notorious armed robberies.
His family believe that a factor in his disappearance could be the upcoming anniversary of the death of his father, who was murdered 15 years ago by an armed robber.
Followed by a crime caper following the story of a seaman lured into a robbery in the City. Times, Sunday Times
He was a liar and a robber in business; she had heard the Minister for Business Affairs describe him that way to Philip. MURDER SONG
It's a beautiful city, but a word of warning: street robberies are very common.
In its quiet look and basic cops-and-robbers plot, it has a pleasing storybook quality. Times, Sunday Times
The net was closing last night on raiders who fired at unarmed gardai during a bank robbery in Co Limerick yesterday.
It is little more than daylight robbery. Times, Sunday Times
Events get off to a ghoulish start as a pair of grave robbers rendezvous in a dark alley to transfer a freshly stolen body from one car to the other.
The two men turned out to be members of a vicious gang of four armed robbers who were responsible for eight separate shootings and 20 hold-ups throughout West Yorkshire.
Both robbers wore balaclavas, dark clothing and hooded jackets.
Tales and legends dealt with the doings of kings, contests between knights and dragons, and the exploits of ancient robbers and bandits as well as with the lives of saints.
The dossier was opened for attempted murder and armed robbery. Times, Sunday Times
The man was one of eight suspected armed robbers who were detained on Thursday for two bank robberies carried out in Milan last summer. Times, Sunday Times
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated.
The cartoon showed a picture of a robber carrying a bag with 'swag' written on it.
It means that the cops are smart and the robbers are mighty good, too. Times, Sunday Times
The difference between pirates and privateers was that the pirates were simply sea robbers who captured or looted ships at sea for plunder, without authority.
I listened to the dialing tone and looked around to see other agents pulling the robbers out in electrified handcuffs. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Polaris Spark’s Review Forum
A masked robber, who was wielding a baseball bat, ambushed the first employee as he went outside to the bins.
Houses are surrounded by high walls topped by electric fences to keep out marauding bands of robbers. Times, Sunday Times
They make the Evening News: they filmed a local gemstone store robbery in progress, a crime in which $10 million in jewels was jacked.
A 78-year-old woman sent a robber packing after she cracked him across the head with a wooden club.
In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
Cops also recorded 1,800 grievous bodily harm offences and 13,600 robberies at knifepoint. The Sun
He added that more than one person had to be involved in the robbery while another vehicle also had to be used to transport the stolen goods.
If the robbers hadn't been so inept they might have got away with it.
£4 for an orange juice? That's just daylight robbery!
Two of the suspects have records for drug abuse and armed robbery. The Sun
She was hit in the leg with two pellets from the shotgun blast during the robbery at Barclay's Bank, Westhoughton, five years ago.
And I don't wanna get whacked ‘cause some little pisher wanted to play cops 'n' robbers, know what I mean?’
I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
Four men were arrested in connection with the attack and a separate robbery.
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
Three men have been charged with robbery of the shop. Times, Sunday Times
Or put anothet way no better than udal robber barons or (Howdy Duty and the Hunter) Bush/chaine The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot
That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. ' The Old Manor House
We were only able to make a tenuous connection between the two robberies.
So rapacious were some accountant trustees, in contradistinction to legal practitioner trustees, that bankruptcy trusteeships were referred to in parliament and in the press as ‘legalised robbery’.
She is a snake a backbiter a backstabber a lier a cheat and she learned well from hubby Bill the cheater, lier, robber and they both are suffering from ADD and Bipolar sickness. Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico

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