Plundering during riots or in wartime

Usage examples of robbery.

He classed himself as a witness present at the attempted robbery of the Argyle Museum, and talked along that line.

Fool, I, Rob, do rob and have robbed greater robbers that I might by robbery live to rob like robbers again, as thou, by thy foolish folly, fooleries make, befooling fools lesser than thou, that thou, Fool, by such fool-like fooleries may live to fool like fools again!

A wealthy merchant in bijouterie and glass does not ordinarily meddle with violent robbery in trains, nor drive up into the mountains to compromise himself by being seen with wanted characters near the scene of fresh crimes.

Kathy Boudin, two members of the sixties radical group Weather Underground, who have been in prison for more than twenty years for their part in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck that left two policemen and a guard dead.

But, as he had not committed the robbery to give himself the pleasure of making restitution, he threw himself upon me, and we came to a regular fight.

This cashless system will be readily accepted by the world because it will counteract robbery, credit card theft, poor credit ratings, and bad checks.

I have always thought that this robbery could not have been effected without the connivance of the painter.

One finds it very difficult to think a coxcomb can commit robbery and murder.

This was Captain Cozenage, whose record while in charge of the Homicide Squad was without parallel in the annals of crime: as a result of which he had been, in rapid succession, switched to the Loft Robberies, Pigeon Drop, Unlicensed Phrenologists, and Mopery Squads: and was now entrusted with a letter-of-marque to suppress steamboat gamblers on the East River.

The rates for other serious violent crimes, such as aggravated assault, forcible rape, and robbery, were equally disturbing.

English on one half and neat, round Burmese on the other, that five thousand rupees were offered for the capture, dead or alive, of one Boh Lu-Bain, convicted of dacoity, with murder, robbery under arms, arson, and an appalling list of subsidiary crimes.

I understand, been not infrequently robbed in the past whilst in conclave, and so long as those of Turland, Renigard and The Doldrums are at large you may expect the robberies to continue indefinitely.

The Ebbling pearls had been returned and crime had apparently met its master, in the person of a cloaked fighter whose entry upon the scene had marked the end of robbery.

Buried in the stories was the fact that the total number of robberies in Dade has actually increased, meaning the thugs are merely redirecting their felonious energies toward local residents.

I was much pleased, for I had been afraid that the women had gone out to get assistance and to have us arrested, and the robbery of our provisions reassured me, as I felt certain that the poor wretches had gone out of the way so as to secure impunity for their theft.