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Sentence Examples A father refused to let his broken foot stop him making a citizen's arrest when he foiled a gang's plot to rob his village store. Honeybee colonies rob honey from each other during periods of nectar dearth. Cool weather, bracing winds and indoor heating can rob skin of essential moisture needed to keep it supple. The idea of possessing eternal life as an immortal soul attempts to rob death of its totality, and therefore of its sanctity. Judge Simon Fawcus sentenced him to 18 years for one charge of conspiracy to rob and nine months, to run concurrently, for absconding from bail. Gray, a former Harrogate choirboy and more recently a regular churchgoer in Newcastle, posed as a priest to rob the woman in her own home. They rob parked cars and have studied the habits of their targets before going into action. And perhaps most galling, he could rob from the poor box while offering auto-hagiography like. It is as if becoming prominent in a public sphere starts to rob you of the energy and vitality that drove you there in the first place. Her young daughter is soon making overtures to the man, who wants to rob the women blind. That is why he rails against the corporate bosses who essentially rob the kitty for their own greed and vanity. The five, all of Holme Wood, Bradford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob and were caged for a total of 34 and a half years. I first considered printing the exchange my friend and I had, but quickly realized that expurgation would rob it of its meaning. Infertility and sterility are on the rise, threatening to rob future generations of their right to choose to conceive. Well okay, the deception probably wouldn't have taken long to uncover, but it would probably be good long enough to go rob a bank. Why do you rob us of our ruffs, of our earrings, carcanets, of our fans and feathers? In an attempt to come up with the cash, they formulate a plan to rob a ragtag gang of criminals who are planning a heist. Too sticky a surface could rob the Scots of a realistic chance of maintaining their run of success. Here, too, an overbusy, unbalanced life can drain us of energy and rob us of joy. The 17-year-old is alleged to have tried to rob a bus driver at knifepoint with a 16-year-old accomplice, also from west York. Show More Sentences No ordinary doobie, this one is rolled with four-leaf clovers which, when smoked by the Leprechaun, will rob him of all his magical powers. Authorities say the trio offered the day laborers work and then drove them to secluded areas to rob them at knifepoint. The man, aged in his fifties, was shot in his car by bandits who tried to rob him after a visit to an automatic teller machine. Not content to rob a poor blind musician and trash his instruments, they rough up a legless man for smokes. Does being with this person add to my life force or do they rob me of my energy? Such a ruling could effectively rob Congress of its oversight powers for a very long time. Great tenacity from Grant which saw him rob Devenney of the ball set up a point for Mickey Linden and Down kept their noses in front. The man would not do you out of a cent and it would certainly not have been his intention to rob anyone. An anxious headteacher has told how she was having to rob Peter to pay Paul in a bid to try to balance the books at her school. When he robbed a convenience store, he never returned to rob that store twice. Daily exposure to the sun can rob your hands of needed moisture and cause blotchiness and liver spots. This film follows the exploits of the Kelly Gang from 1878 to 1880 as they rob banks and dodge the long arm of the law. Two men were planning to rob an armored car that was about to make a morning delivery to a local Bank of America. We would rob the tallest mango trees in the colony of their ripest mangos and often dive into the nearby canal for a cool dip. This first feature filmed in Irish follows the tale of an aging producer of poitin and the two young ruffians who rob him. I suspect the demystification of the magickal process will rob it of magic. The man threatened to rob Tina's store saying he had a knife, but fled empty-handed after she whacked him with an axe handle. The evergreens next to it, growing conically and relatively straight up, would rob it of light. Walk down a city street without keeping a tight grip on your wallet or handbag and somebody will rob you. Watching a news story about a bank robber on TV, he hatches a plan to rob a bank. Show More Sentences They pay a pittance into the state pension system and then rob workers over company pension plans. But he had to tramp the dark streets for three whole nights before anyone would rob him. All of this excess motion can rob the cyclist of the power that needs to be delivered to the pedals to drive the bicycle forward. That was the day someone purely evil had tried to rob Kat of her innocence, of her purity. Two seemingly harmless and careless shoeblacks turn out to be gloomy crooks with a dirty plan to rob a bank courier. But biotechnology craves to subdue this creativity, to rob nature of its own nature, to denaturalize and dispirit it. Many operations like radical prostatectomies or radical mastectomies rob patients of their dignity and their quality of life. He did rob a couple dozen banks when he was a cop before his best friend turned him in. Mental illness can rob a person of peace of mind, relationships, and sense of purpose in life. Not only did you rob her of her bag but you injured her and the offence has left an appalling blot upon her memory. A Croatian bank robber was so humiliated that he ran away after a bank clerk just laughed at him when he tried to rob them. You're always going out to meet with your hoodlum gang to rob a supermarket or mug some guy or something. This discontinuation is really a ploy to rob and mulct the historic taxpayers to rescue the finances of the municipality. Sometimes using colored girls for decoys, skollies waylay and rob British and American servicemen. He introduces him to the criminal underworld and, as partners, they rob and beat men in darkened alleys. The slave-making ants go to the nest of another ant-species to rob pupae, which are carried back. One of them sought to rob me, zipping open a compartment in the briefcase I was carrying and delving inside for what he could steal. Needing money to pay off a debt, he tries to rob a wealthy neighbour and is finally arrested and jailed. He dawdled on the ball at the corner flag and, when he should have been launching an attack, allowed Barry Nicholson to rob him. The answer is that they often consume flying fish, which leap over the water's surface, and sometimes rob other birds of a meal. Show More Sentences I don't ever worry about somebody trying to rob the spot because like I said, aint nobody dumb enough to try it, and we got a team of young head bustas guarding it. Once he lunged at a man trying to rob a convenience store, subduing him with his bare hands. Police report that Sailors believed that Diaz and his group intended to rob his house. They say they want to increase the level of support for people wishing to remain in their own homes, which everyone agrees with, but you shouldn't rob Peter to pay Paul. This would give his gang plenty of time to rob the bank and make their getaway. Like Will Stanton, Little Hawk is 11 when ancient ritual and sudden circumstance rob him of his innocence. Yet these men are the real spongers who literally rob us of millions. At the same time, rogue elements have attempted to rob the economy of our region of legitimate revenue through misdeclarations to Customs and Excise. Thieves rob the Mafia, killing three mobsters and two cops in the process. He is careful with his weightlifting, not wanting to get muscle-bound, which would rob him of the upper-body flexibility he needs to produce bat speed. The Bonnie and Clyde couple must rob a virtual bank, threaten virtual civilians, and then outrun the virtual police! In short, why should a drug addict rob a convenience store for small change when he or she could score big cash by stealing someone's identity instead? Fractious division, corruption and the misuse of power rob the people of national hope, a loss which leaves them to survive solipsistically in an all-too-familiar despair. He had tried to rob the off-licence on Swinley Lane, Wigan, waving the sword at the woman assistant before vaulting the counter, only to find he couldn't open the till. But if Othello dies a deluded and confused figure, would that not rob him of all dignity and nobility, turning him into the pitiful victim of a vicious, hostile society? Whilst in custody the appellant said in conversation that although she had the knife and did stab the driver they had only intended to rob him and not to kill him. But I intend to rob him again someday, ladies and gentlemen, because robbing Howie is what I do best. Such details as Jean's address and vocation and marital status, even his surname, would only rob Laure's Friday night of its poetic or oneiric mystery. After spending two weeks casing the joint, they rob it on Christmas Eve. There really was a mad barber, he really did use a trapdoor and straight razor to rob and kill customers, and most did end up as filling for meat pies. Show More Sentences The plot to rob the Clutters' place was ill-conceived and absurd. Such symptoms rob individuals of their dignity, autonomy, and personhood. Nor do expense allowances that are generous to a fault amount to proof positive that every backbench MP would, given the chance, rob the poor box in the local parish church. Am I joining exercise classes so I can foil fools who rob me? Blue jays and crows rob smaller birds' nests, often those of robins and catbirds, of both eggs and young, while hawks may steal the same from the crows and jays! Lactones, phenolic aldehydes, terpenes and wood tannins are all by-products of oak, so it is understandable that too much can rob a white wine of its fruit and delicacy. Now let's jump to the main plot, where the pretty, giggly Plum sisters work their magic to ensorcell a man in a convenience store, convincing the lovesick man to rob it. One bandit came in the night to rob the couple, and shot at his wife when she exited the house. A bandit tried to rob them, and they shot and killed him and went back to work Monday morning as if nothing had happened. She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him. However, the goal of the pirate was to rob the ship without fighting or blood loss. They planned to rob the house of Joseph Lawrence, a farmer at Earlsbury Farm in Edgware. Perfectionism is a time bandit that can rob you of extra time, lead you away from your priorities, and create emotional stress. Well, if he wasn't ashamed of trying to rob an 83-year-old great-grandma, he dang sure ought to be ashamed of gettin' whupped by one. Who in his right mind would want to know he had a disease that would inevitably rob him of that mind? Well, how about a random Polish labourer called Jozef who's sacked by Ian Beale, gets drunk and then decides to rob the Vic? Omar was introduced in the first season, leading a stickup crew as they attempted to rob the show's chief drug lord, Avon Barksdale. A TERRIFIED dad was forced to leave his baby with a carjacker after he was doused with liquid and ordered to rob a post office. You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties? It was typical of Cossacks to engage in piracy on the Sea of Azov or the Caspian Sea and to rob various envoys and Russian or Persian merchants. Show More Sentences I was naive enough to assume that he would, at most, rob me. Home Office rules threaten to rob the region of Dr Akif Gani, a consultant geriatrician at Newcastle General Hospital. Or is the truth that this is just a cash cow, and Stockfield Road nothing more than a dirty trick to rob the motorists of Birmingham? Drift nets which rob the Rivers Wye and Usk of their salmon stocks have been removed by a conservation group. Again, giving much more detail would rob the filmgoing experience of what limited entertainment value it possesses. He's a drinking, fornicating, foul-mouthed safe-cracker who works as a store Santa while planning to rob the mall of all its holiday proceeds. Wonderful as they are in a dish, these flavors can flatten many wines, rob them of their fruity characteristics, and make them taste bitter, oaky, or too high in alcohol. There could be as many as 30,000 so-called mareros, who sell drugs, rob illegal migrants or extort businesses in El Salvador, according to estimates by authorities. Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil. Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him. Others reach out with armlike hyphae to rob a neighbor of its food. One Sunday afternoon they tried to terrorize and rob Paul Wasserman. Where he had used to rob and spoyle those that passed that way. Outer rainbands can organize into an outer ring of thunderstorms that slowly moves inward, which is believed to rob the primary eyewall of moisture and angular momentum. Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory! He admitted trying to rob Sawney Bean's Howf in Saltcoats last April. Rob Schneider derp dee derp. Derp dee derpity derpy derp. Until one day, a derp a derp a derp a derp. Australian composer Rob Dougan proposed a mix of trip hop beats, orchestral music and electronics. Rob finished cleaning his empty gun then pointed it at an imaginary target and dry fired. Cindy Buck got her start as a gardener when a friend gave her and her husband, Rob, a whole gardenful of divided perennials as a wedding present. Show More Sentences In his later years Pratchett wrote by dictating to his assistant, Rob Wilkins, or by using speech recognition software. The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading. The acoustic designers were Rob Harris and Jeremy Newton of Arup Acoustics. The 1987 film The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner, starring Robin Wright and Cary Elwes, was partly filmed in Derbyshire. Alec and Rob handed her their leather bifolds containing their picture identification with their badges pinned inside. My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles! Among their number were Rob Gilson of the Tea Club and Barrovian Society, who was killed on the first day of the Somme while leading his men in the assault on Beaumont Hamel. Examples from Classical Literature My wife is an adulteress, and my servants in league with villains to rob me! The least inadvertence may rob us of the public favor so hard to be acquired. Even the hand-organ could not rob the intermezzo of its charm for the public! But if they were bad people they could perfectly well rob me and drown me in the Irtysh. Do you think, if I were alive, I would let any man rob me of the savings of my life? Then we'll rob two of the native prisoners of their clothing, under which we can each carry a service revolver and a creese. The unpardonable sin of a deserting legionnaire is to rob France of the uniform lent him for his soldiering. Isn't Alick McGregor a nice fellow to rob his own father and you his aider and abettor? The duke did not wish to rob the Seor de las Cuevas of the reparation due to him. Better still, if I could throw temptation in his way, and lure him on to rob me. All that I wants 'un out of way for, is that he mayn't have the chance to rob his darter. When the savage desires to rob you, he may attempt to strangle and maim you. Duc de Soria, your predecessor would neither cost you a regret nor rob you of a maravedi. The bulk of the proceeds fell into the hands of the clergy and the hidalgos sent out to rob and misgovern the islands. I cannot rob you of your maid and also be selfish enough to monopolize these rooms. Does the power to rob a man of his earnings, rob the earner of his right to them? Was it remarkable that happiness should benumb him and rob him of his senses? No stray, unwished-for visitor ever got to the master to rob him of his rest when he was at home. He said I'd got a boneyard of some ancient people, and he'd rob graves to find out all about them olden times. It is absurd to say that one inherits the tendency to rob or rape or burglarize or kill. Show More Sentences The virgin forest is his domain, and he is not the man to rob it of its primeval charms. He will swim in pursuit of the water vole, and will climb trees and bushes in order to rob a bird's nest of eggs or young. That spurt was sufficient to rob De Wet of his last impedimenta, to cause him to bifurcate in his flight. These, draping the roughly-hewn logs, rob them to some extent of their rigidity. The effect of all this was to rob White Fang of much of his puppyhood and to make him in his comportment older than his age. He had not meant to treat her slightingly, any more than he had meant to rob Mistress Lynn. Eliminate the 69 personal touch from half the preserve closets of Podunk and you rob them of their glory and half of their flavor. These facts rob the act which has been so lauded by historians of all heroism. The quietness with which he spoke did not rob his words of their significance. They have my support totally as this carbuncle of a government are using legalised highway robbery with their pensions to rob them. Still, fate can rob us of our patrimony, she replied, after a pause. Penned in by the desolate weather, she recaptured the sense of space which the motor had tried to rob from her. Would I rob Heaven and give the praise and honour to the creature? He was known to be masquerading as a sadhu in order to rob pilgrims. God forgive me, I believe you intend to rob the poor Savoyard. He went to Garson yesterday with a scheme to rob your house. I says to myself, THIS is a girl that I'm letting that old reptle rob her of her money! You probably will, dopey, but you'll never rob us of this memory. As one of these packets contained characteristic notes from the party, we will rob an imaginary mail, and read them. I thought you was talkin' to a confederate about gold, and figured maybe you was goin' to rob the bank. Show More Sentences But Tom give him five cents to keep quiet, and said we would all go home and meet next week, and rob somebody and kill some people. How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum? On enquiry, we learned these fellows had threatened to rob her shop. Small-time robber Buster Edwards takes his family into hiding after he and a gang rob a Royal Mail train. Every one was waiting for him, to fleece him, rob him, strip him. According to the survey data, 71 percent of beds across America are host to a mouth breather, which can rob people of much-needed sleep. My uncle and his graceless son were engaged in a scheme to rob me. But do you think I will rob my sister of her humble servant? I have not sneaked home to rob your children, if not yourself, brother, of your rights. If a Kurd eat bread given him, he will never try to rob the giver. They could torture you to death, but without conviction or confession they could not rob your wife and baby. You had rather go round and rob his prizes from any man who contradicts you. He plumed himself on the skill with which he managed to rob his employer. An' in Ireland ye can rob and murther widout fear of consequences. Showing dauntlessness he clarified that he will not let anyone to rob his mandate. I was afraid to sleep, even if I had been inclined, for I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry. That's a fairy story the grafters shove at you every time they want to rob you some more. Not to believe in it was almost to rob her of her personal property. What philtre do those baggages give you to rob you of your wits? We don't rob our friends or even try an' run a razoo on strangehs. Show More Sentences There were three young women in adjoining cells, all convicted at the same time of a conspiracy to rob their prosecutor. It is an ingenious scheme to rob me of what rightfully belongs to me. Fear seemed to rob them of power as blazing star dashed in among them. If, again, she were defined as the Woman our More Fortunate Friend Marries, her unapproachableness would rob the definition of any practical value. It doesn't hurt if they rob him of all of it so that he starves to death. Remorselessly to rob you, an orphan, as any brigand might do? Would I go to the hulks for attempting to rob him of five pounds, or would I stay and help him commit a robbery, of which my share alone would be ten or fifteen thousand? For you see he was barely twenty, and to have met your ideal so early in life is apt to rob the remainder of the journey of something of its zest. This is the way that God teaches us to be meek and patient, and the thought that He has willed it so should rob us of our fears and help us bear the years. Ali Baba, of Arabian Nights fame, was the thief to rob all thieves. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of rob? Words that rhyme with rob What is the past tense of rob? What is the plural of rob? What is the adjective for rob? What is the noun for rob? Translations for rob Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Roath roasts roasting roastery roasters roaster Rob Robb robbed robber Robber robber baron 3-letter Words Starting With r ro