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Example sentences for "burglars"

Lexicographically close words:
burghers; burghs; burglar; burglaries; burglarious; burglary; burgle; burgled; burgling; burgomaster
  1. His heart beat loudly, and he had dim visions of burglars who might have entered the big store to rob it.

  2. If he was discovered, there was no telling what such burglars might do with him.

  3. But if the burglars didn't take anything, they won't be likely to return, will they?

  4. Burglars ain't usually as quiet as all that.

  5. Some of them have got them, and some have not; still, even with shutters, burglars can always get in if they want to do so.

  6. It was, indeed, a sort of rendezvous for poachers and bad characters, it was more than suspected that gangs of thieves and burglars made it their headquarters, and that even highwaymen found it a convenient and quiet resort.

  7. The highwaymen generally look down upon the burglars and keep themselves to themselves.

  8. He spoke frankly enough of his pursuit of the two men and related how the would-be burglars had been smashed up by the express train.

  9. You happened to be a guest of Mr. Samuel Flower and disturbed two burglars to whom you subsequently gave chase.

  10. There was a great commotion in the neighbourhood next day when it became known that burglars had made an attempt on Maldon Grange, and that the body of one had been found in the vaults under the house.

  11. Besides, since no one knows Jansen or anything about him, it will be reasonable to assume that he was one of the burglars and that they had quarrelled with fatal results.

  12. He always locks himself in and the door of his bedroom is lined with steel, as a precaution against burglars or something of that kind, so he said.

  13. Scarcely two minutes had elapsed since Montague had entered the room; for the confusion and flight of the burglars had not occupied near so much time to enact as to describe.

  14. Even his grovelling soul at that moment comprehended the Roman mind of the woman whom he would have disgraced: a coward when burglars menaced her life, she was suddenly endowed with lion-daring in defence of her virtue.

  15. Two of the burglars made a desperate push down the kitchen stairs and escaped: the third was captured in an attempt to follow his companions.

  16. Burglars in London are not uncommon; they seem to know, by mere predatory instinct, the houses where valuables and silver abound.

  17. The burglars vanished silently into the laurels, with horrid implications!

  18. The curate's undaunted demeanour, as reported by Aunt Maria, was generally supposed to have terrified the burglars into flight, and much kudos accrued to him thereby.

  19. As a matter of fact, burglars who have done a good stroke of business are, as a rule, only too glad to enjoy the proceeds in peace and quiet without embarking on another perilous undertaking.

  20. We must make it appear that burglars had done the thing.

  21. Yes, it was by their light, and that of the lady's bedroom candle, that the burglars saw their way about.

  22. What sort of burglars are they who steal silver and then throw it into the nearest pond?

  23. These burglars made a considerable haul at Sydenham a fortnight ago.

  24. But what is uncommon about it, and what at first sight put me off the track, is that these burglars had the cheek to pierce the wall with an opening large enough to enable them to remove the furniture of a house.

  25. On the other hand, she might have been put there to make sure that I did not miss the road the burglars took.

  26. The inspector and his men had searched it thoroughly just to make sure; but, as Guerchard had foretold, the burglars had not taken the chance of the failure of the police to discover the opening between the two houses.

  27. It's probable that the burglars came in and went away by this ladder.

  28. I hope the burglars have not stolen the coronet.

  29. As far as I can see, the burglars have only touched these two drawing-rooms.

  30. He kept stopping with the food poised on his fork, midway between the plate and his mouth, for several seconds at a time, while he listened with straining ears for the sound of burglars breaking in the windows of the hall.

  31. In particular he lingered long in the bedroom of Victoire, discussing the possibilities of her having been murdered and carried away by the burglars along with their booty.

  32. One of the burglars sat on the couch there, rubbed plaster on the sole of his boot, and set his foot down on the carpet.

  33. The burglars came here with their boots covered with plaster.

  34. The thing to do now is to hunt the neighbourhood for witnesses of the departure of the burglars with their booty.

  35. Formery "The burglars came in by this window, and they went out by it.

  36. Guerchard's theory that the burglars were let in the front door of this house by an accomplice.

  37. But Dieusy has been hunting the neighbourhood for some one who saw the burglars loading their conveyance, or saw it waiting to be loaded, for the last hour.

  38. Overhead, from all parts of the house, came the mechanical announcement that burglars had broken in.

  39. Believing that the burglars had returned, the clerk beat a hasty retreat, and it was the sound of his footsteps that had alarmed Tom.

  40. He had never dreamed that the burglars would refuse to live up to their promise, but he had heard enough of their conversation to satisfy him that they would bear watching.

  41. The burglars were so deeply engrossed in discussing their affairs that they did not hear the sound of Sam's footsteps, and he approached within a few feet of them without being discovered.

  42. It was done by two strangers--professional burglars undoubtedly--and they were afterward joined by Sam Barton and his band of rascals, who carried off a quantity of provisions.

  43. When the lantern was turned up, Sam and his men looked at the burglars, and the burglars looked at them.

  44. Sam did not want the money, but he did want provisions; and he was convinced, now, that the burglars would not stand in his way.

  45. He and his men were well enough acquainted with the path to travel it rapidly in the dark, and they might, perhaps, succeed in getting the Sweepstakes under-way before the burglars could reach her.

  46. If the burglars left the cove, the Crusoe men would never see them again, and the only thing that would prevent them from so doing, was the difficulty of bridging the chasm; and that could be easily overcome.

  47. The burglars are safe, and if Mr. Henry was here, I know he would thank you.

  48. He told how the burglars had effected an entrance into the store, described the operation of blowing open the safe, and even mentioned the fact of having heard somebody shouting for help while he was standing on the cliff.

  49. I was in pursuit of the burglars when you caught me.

  50. The burglars could not go all over the island in one day's time, and there was little probability that they would discover the governor's hiding-place.

  51. The face was forced off, but the eight hundred dollars in the safe remained intact and undisturbed, the burglars making a total haul of only five dollars.

  52. Then the burglars went to work in real earnest and soon effected an entrance into the money-drawers.

  53. But one of the two captured burglars sat down on the grass and began to sob loudly.

  54. In a short time both Mr. Fabian and Mr. Alexander came in and crept over to the window where the girls had heard the burglars plotting.

  55. The host and some other guests were surrounding Mr. Fabian who tried to explain that Mr. Alexander and he were following burglars who were looting the place.

  56. Polly, eagerly, when she heard how the burglars had defeated their own purpose.

  57. If they are burglars where is the one who is told to drop a bundle?

  58. It might have been that burglars were lurking there, and, being disturbed by him, they killed him in order to prevent an alarm being raised.

  59. If they were burglars they would not have attacked him from behind without any ulterior motive.

  60. He found the window in the drawing-room through which the burglars had entered still open, and the room, all in confusion, ransacked and rifled.

  61. The chief of a band of French burglars was arrested in a street quarrel, and was found to be carrying a great part of the stolen bonds in his pocket.

  62. In silence she pulled out the iron bolts in the window-sash that had been Mrs. Maldon's device for preventing burglars from opening further a window already open a little, thus combining security with good hygiene.

  63. Often had he pictured himself in the act of calmly triumphing over burglars or other villains.

  64. I'm no more afraid of burglars than you are," Rachel added.

  65. And now, as he stood in the gloom at the door of his bedroom and waited feverishly for the sound of more footsteps, it was inevitable that visions of burglars should disturb him.

  66. The probability of burglars visiting any particular house in the town was infinitely slight--his common sense told him that.

  67. He would not willingly allow the theory of burglars to crumble.

  68. A dramatic surprise--his gun and the man behind it--for burglars who had no doubt counted on having to deal with a mere couple of women!

  69. I thought that would be a good place for it in case burglars did come.

  70. I only just mentioned burglars because they're so much in the paper.

  71. No wonder that, with bank-notes loose all over the place, his shockingly negligent auntie should have special qualms concerning burglars on that night of all nights!

  72. As if burglars would try to get in by an upstairs window--and on the street!

  73. There've been burglars here," she cried excitedly, "or something funny!

  74. He began to wonder what kind of burglars they were.

  75. Admitted that he never had heard burglars in the house.

  76. She had asked him for it one morning, saying she thought she had heard burglars the night before.

  77. Then she became unduly frightened, would not stay at home, said she was afraid the burglars would come again and kill “some one in the house.

  78. It is not clear how she took this reproof, but at any rate no symptoms appeared until three weeks later, after burglars had broken into a nearby church.

  79. The patient herself stated later, during a faultfinding period, that at that time she was afraid somebody would take her honor away, and that she thought burglars had taken her “wedding dress.

  80. It looks very much as though burglars were at work there.

  81. The door was locked and we all thought that burglars must be there.

  82. She was sure now he had; the aristocratic burglars always have.

  83. At the same time, he recalled that a band of burglars had been going about, looting country-houses.

  84. When the burglars had performed their work, they walked boldly out at the front door of the District Attorney's office, where they were kindly received by Harrington and his friend A.

  85. The next night two professional burglars were hired to enter the office, blow open the safe and carry the books to Mr Alexander's house.

  86. Dudley was so eloquent about burglars that he almost had me going.

  87. This created in Mr Pickering's mind an atmosphere of burglary, a receptiveness, as it were, toward burglars as phenomena, and the extremely peculiar behaviour of the person whom in his thoughts he always referred to as The Man crystallized it.

  88. He could imagine no reason why burglars should want to visit Lord Wetherby's studio.

  89. We find you hiding here with a pistol and a story about burglars which an infant couldn't swallow.

  90. It seemed clear that the plans of the burglars had been changed, and that the attack was to be made on Saturday night, and not on Monday night, as first proposed.

  91. Paul would have been not a little surprised had he known that this man was one of the burglars against whom he was contriving measures of defense.

  92. Burglars in nearly every case are armed, and if brought to bay would doubtless use their arms, and the possible result of a chance shot was to be dreaded.

  93. An encounter with burglars promised no little excitement, and he wanted to be present, and have his share in it.

  94. Carrying their shoes in their hands, the two burglars crept up the basement stairs.

  95. I don't know what would have become of me if I'd been brought up by burglars like him.

  96. Probably two or three officers will be concealed in the house, and when the burglars are fairly in will arrest them.

  97. Through his means the burglars were prevented from carrying out their designs, and one of them was captured.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burglars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.