How to Use burglarize in a Sentence

burglarize

verb
Definition of burglarizenext
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  • Police believe the suspects had just burglarized a home.
    — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Mobile police said two men were shot while attempting to burglarize a home Thursday Morning.
    — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 26 May 2017
  • That same year, Williams burglarized a home, and spent a stint in jail before his 1998 conviction for robbing the donut shot.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Thieves crashed a pickup into a pawn shop in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas overnight and burglarized it, according to reports.
    — Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 10 May 2017
  • For the second time in less than a month, a Walgreens in Mobile County has been burglarized for prescription medications.
    — Prescotte Stokes Iii, AL.com, 18 May 2017
  • According to Vanity Fair, he was first hired by Kitty and José after the brothers were caught burglarizing two homes.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The home the van had been parked in front of was also burglarized.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This isn’t the first time Puig’s home has been burglarized.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The house has not been burglarized and entry was not gained.
    — Houston Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018
  • The tusk was on display when the center was burglarized March 8.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2018
  • Two vehicles — one in the garage and one in the driveway — were burglarized, deputies said.
    — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 May 2018
  • Even more bummed to get home after long 36 hours and find out my house was burglarized.
    — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Within the first 16 months, the restaurant was burglarized three times.
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Three men tried to burglarize a Coral Gables home Sunday night.
    — Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 5 June 2017
  • Two homes on the same block were burglarized on June 13 and reported June 14.
    — latimes.com, 20 June 2018
  • The Garretts had a tough first year, as their place was burglarized last summer.
    — Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, Lake County News-Sun, 18 June 2018
  • The house was burglarized June 6, the Sheriff's Office said.
    — Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 22 June 2018
  • Damn my home in Dallas was just burglarized, called the cops and still waiting on @DallasPD to make a report.
    — Nina Mandell, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2017
  • On Tuesday his house in Dallas was burglarized and among the items stolen was a toilet.
    — Jeff Maillet, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The store was burglarized after two suspects threw a rock through the north side window.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
  • His home was burglarized the same day — something that’s happened at least three times.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • In just the past few weeks, a black man in New York was accused of burglarizing his own apartment.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 14 May 2018
  • His nutritional store was the first to be burglarized, back on the night of Sept. 28 or the early morning hours of Sept. 29.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Yates had returned to her Tempe home and found Cahill burglarizing it.
    — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In December 2021 a man burglarizing the Avants’ home, Aariel Maynor, shot and killed her.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Lyles called the police for help Sunday morning and told them her home had been burglarized.
    — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • Pack had to watch thieves burglarize the shop on his cellphone on two occasions.
    — Matt Bruce, ajc, 12 Mar. 2022
  • An audio store on the Berlin Turnpike was burglarized this week by suspects who crashed a car through the store’s glass windows.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In late June, the suspect burglarized two gas stations on the same night, the sheriff's office said on Facebook.
    — Nancy Daly, Cincinnati.com, 13 July 2018
  • The family was not home and was at a Chicago Bulls game when their home was burglarized, police said.
    — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018

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