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burgling

vb. (present participle of burgle English)

Usage examples of "burgling".

Returning from burgling, burglars would discover that they had been burgled, sometimes by the very burglar that they themselves had just burgled!

This task of burgling a house was like an unexpected treat to a child.

A man who is burgling a house for a bet does not usually do it in the company of a professional burglar, well known to the police.

He had never taken any exercise (unless you counted burgling, running away, and getting beaten up).

Keith was sorry, but he wouldn't want to live in the kind of society where nobody was worth burgling.

It would be like saying that his hobbies were cheating, burgling and receiving.

Indeed, burgling, when viewed in Darwinian terms, was clearly approaching a crisis.

It would be resolved when enough burglars found burgling a waste of time, and stopped doing it.

But burglars had plenty of time to wasteit was all they had plenty of, and there was nothing else to do with itso they just went on burgling.

Dewdrop Bunyan had snatched Borribles in the past for burgling purposes but he'd only snaffled them in ones and twos.