Taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear.
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Examples for "rob"
Examples for "rob"
1You never rob from the working class area you're from; no way.
2They said Beasley wanted to rob his victims and steal their identities.
3This can rob the use of a number elsewhere on the ground.
4Their intention probably was to rob and leave him in the desert.
5I'd be happy to let him know you tried to rob us.
1It said the group had been responsible for brutal attacks and robbery.
2If they committed armed robbery at age 14 that's a good predictor.
3Three men were arrested after an armed robbery in Dublin early today.
4I did not find out this latter detail-thisrobbery,-untilsix months ago.
5If you have any information regarding this robbery please contact Crime Stoppers.
1Two men appeared in court yesterday charged with robbing four Dublin brothels.
2That grave robbing probably wouldn't be good for her after her accident.
3Tells how they work; the fined imposed for robbing a falcon's nest.
4When you're robbing a bank you don't stop to count the change.
5They think they can make more money selling drugs or robbing people.
1Welch, however, sometimes goes a bit overboard with the shenanigans and mugging.
2No need to be mugging up on briefs on the tribunal steps.
3Funny, I hadn't even remembered the mugging until a few moments ago.
4But it was our first time mugging for the camera, as well.
5The conquerors of Milan were subjected to an elegant mugging by Blackpool.
1The really great immediate universal emergency to-day in America is the holdup.
2They were too well dressed, he decided, to be ordinary holdup men.
3Ostensibly, the holdup is coming from the end of the movie studios.
4Then it all started with the holdup of that Shiloh Tool outfit?
5Three did, but the others fled, triggering rumors of an attempted holdup.
1Witherow defended the use of blagging and subterfuge in the public interest.
2In Britain, media industry sources said, blagging is usually illegal.
3I got out of the blagging habit for a while.
4I feel like I'm blagging it, to be honest.
5I want to see plenty of blagging, loads of bumphing, and a good bit of blatching.
1A stick-up man came along, and tried to hold up his stand.
2There's something besides stick-up men worth a man's thinking about, little horse!
3That building is known for its stick-up-its-ass board, but it's inscrutable.
4Station, and they would finish off the day by moonlighting as stick-up artists.
5You'll keep me remembering how much we've always despised conceited, stuck-up people?
1The major hold-up now is just how much power he would have.
2Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was not aware of any hold-up.
3But the most serious of all was the hold-up in Giant Gorge.
4You opened the wicket and passed the money out to the hold-up.
5In the end the hold-up may simply be down to a technicality.
6The hold-up of the train had taken place at a depressing spot.
7There was a bit of a hold-up -some barrier wasn't working.
8But development was delayed for years by legal disputes and permitting hold-ups.
9Then, too, seems one of the hold-ups called the other one Crawford.