How to Use burgle in a Sentence

burgle

verb
  • Gomez has not burgled in 15 years.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
  • What’s a novel but a big score of details burgled from the world?
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Being spoiled for choice in the means of how to further my dewy lewk agenda is a blessing and a time-burgling curse.
    — Sable Yong, Allure, 27 Oct. 2017
  • But none of this deterred her from continuing to burgle.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
  • One patron’s wife stopped him from going to the gallery after his vehicle was burgled twice.
    — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
  • He is also charged with burgling Woods' apartment two weeks earlier, court records show.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The office of the chief justice of South Africa’s highest court was burgled in March.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2017
  • Christopher Knight was a thief who burgled private properties more than a thousand times and robbed their owners of peace of mind.
    — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2017
  • Somehow, Gedney had crept into these quiet, throwaway scenes and burgled them for his camera.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2017
  • The local Chinese restaurant and the local corner shop have also been burgled.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
  • It was later revealed to belong to a MPD officer whose home was burgled in May this year.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Even the Hamburglar was there to help battle the British, and OK, burgle their burgers, the spoils of war.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Act Two relocates to the offices, looking ransacked after being burgled the night before.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The unexpected disarray could have been the sign of a struggle, but Swearingen chalked it up to a break-in, and later filed a police report saying his home had been burgled while he was gone.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Odessa A’zion), a young woman with addiction issues who impulsively goes along with the plan of her boyfriend Trevor (Drew Starkey) to burgle a storage unit.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Detectives investigating the shooting found that three teens were burgling the home when they were confronted by the armed homeowner, Hinojos,, police said.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2023
  • A week prior to the burglary, one of the suspects was in contact with a man accused of acting as a middleman to sell luxury items burgled from wealthy homeowners, according to federal prosecutors.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Grant told Barry his flat was burgled, microphones were put in his window boxes and dropped into his car, and medical records of him and the mothers of his children were stolen from NHS databases.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
  • The Louvre could use a win—the institution was notoriously burgled last October, losing $102 million in jewels.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In 2009, Boyle's parents' Ottawa home was burgled, though bullet holes in the home prompted the authorities to question whether the crime was linked to Boyle's first wife or his father's job as a federal tax judge.
    — Author: Mark Dent, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Four Chilean men were arrested in connection with the burglary of a string of multimillion-dollar homes, including one on the date Burrow’s home was burgled, though Burrow was not explicitly mentioned in the police report.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Nobody, a box office hit in 2021, followed Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk), a docile family man who slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled, leading him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 July 2024
  • He was charged under the Espionage Act and faced 115 years imprisonment, but the case ended in a mistrial because the government illegally gathered evidence (by, among other tactics, burgling his psychiatrist’s office).
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017

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