robber
[ˈrɑːbər]
Definition:
1. A thief who steals from someone by threatening violence.
'robber' example sentence:
- He turned his gun on the robber.
- The police caught the robber at last.
- A police car barred the robber's exit.
- The robber has run away already.
- I hope the robber get caught soon.
- Where was the bank robber?
- Tom saw his opportunity, "Lookyhere, Huck, being rich ain't going to keep me back from turning robber."
- The robber took the $40 and left.
- "You shall sleep with me to-night, with all my animals," said the little robber maiden.
- Frank is a robber.
- The robber is there.
- A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is--as a general thing.
- "She shall play with me," said the little robber child.
- The robber made her open the safe at gunpoint.
- The robber chases them.
- The police found some traces of the robbers.
- Three of the bank robbers were arrested, and the rest escaped.
- The robber made him take out money.
- They would just catch the robbers and hand them over to the police.
- The bank robber was gone.
- This robber runs out of the building.
- He drew a knife on the robber.
- The robber took a light and began looking for it, but he could not find it.
- The robber told the woman to come across with her purse.
- The policeman shouted at the robber.
- The robbers fled by night.
- The robber wounded him with a knife.
- The robber crashed the car into a wall.
- The police car was gaining ground on the robbers.
- "Listen," said the robber maiden to Gerda.
- These robbers are now flying low somewhere in Europe.
- The robber is wanted by the police.
- Two people both became a robber.
- This band of robbers has occupied the Taihang Mountain for a long time.
- Two robbers broke into her home, held a knife to her throat and stole her savings.
- He caught a robber yesterday.
- The robbers killed the man and took his money.
- The robber menaced him with a revolver.
- The police asked her to describe the robber.
- Worry is a robber of time and energy.
- The robber was his black driver.
- The bank robbers will not escape punishment.
- The bank robbers used a stolen car to get away.
- The robber struck him on the head.
- "I always sleep with the knife," said the little robber maiden.
- The robbers were lying in wait for the rich traveller.
- The robbers threw smoke bombs to create a diversion.
- The policeman caught the robber.
- The police followed the robbers to the airport but then the trail went cold.
- The jeweller was stabbed as he tried to fight the robbers off.
- The bank robber wears a stocking mask.
- Masked robbers broke in and made off with$ 8,000.
- Masked robbers broke in, tied him up, and made off with$ 8,000.
- The robbers were wearing stocking masks.
- Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
- This was the first time he had confronted an armed robber.
- Kate grabbed for the robber's gun.
- The robbers fled empty-handed.