Robber is an English word with synonyms like thief or stealer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Robber in a sentence
Related words
Robber meaning
- A person who robs.
- An animal who robs.
Robber vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Robber
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who robs. | An animal who robs.
- Useful related words include: thief, stealer.
- Possible Dutch translations are: rover.
- In the example corpus, robber often appears in combinations such as: the robber, armed robber, bank robber.
Context around Robber
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Robber
- In this selection, "robber" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bank, alleged, armed, steals, barons and castles stand out and add context to how "robber" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1934 bank robber charles pretty and a hallam robber who held. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "robber" sits close to words such as acne, anonymously and asians, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with robber
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Also, Kern had noted that the robber was wearing a large, distinctive earring. (13 words)
It came to be called the Robber Council of Ephesus or Robber Synod of Latrocinium by its opponents. (18 words)
A robber stole debit cards, work gear and other items from a car in Brighton Beach on Jan. (18 words)
As the likelihood of having the barbarian move closer to Catan is very high, a variant in common usage is that the robber (and with Seafarers, the pirate) does not move until the first barbarian attack, nor can a knight move the robber before that point. (46 words)
Along with the concept of ships, Seafarers also introduces the notion of the pirate, which acts as a waterborne robber which steals from nearby ships (similar to how the robber steals from nearby settlements). (34 words)
A robber wanted for murder in a different state approached a man as he made a withdrawal from an ATM, ordered him to hand over his money, and pistol-whipped him, police said. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Along with the concept of ships, Seafarers also introduces the notion of the pirate, which acts as a waterborne robber which steals from nearby ships (similar to how the robber steals from nearby settlements).
As the likelihood of having the barbarian move closer to Catan is very high, a variant in common usage is that the robber (and with Seafarers, the pirate) does not move until the first barbarian attack, nor can a knight move the robber before that point.
In the next three years, four robber barons were targeted and between ten and twelve robber castles destroyed or inactivated.
It came to be called the Robber Council of Ephesus or Robber Synod of Latrocinium by its opponents.
A Bank of America in Houston then became the fourth robbery as the Bureau offered up to $5,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of the alleged robber.
A former bank robber is joining the cult following for Keanu Reeves’ iconic heist movie as he gives it a perfect rating, despite its flaws in depicting actual robberies.
A Hallam robber who held up a bottle-shop worker at knifepoint in the middle of the day has been spared jail.
Also, Kern had noted that the robber was wearing a large, distinctive earring.
A robber stole debit cards, work gear and other items from a car in Brighton Beach on Jan.
A robber wanted for murder in a different state approached a man as he made a withdrawal from an ATM, ordered him to hand over his money, and pistol-whipped him, police said.
A would-be robber was shot and injured in the busy commercial hub of Halfway Tree this morning.
He rested, then continued to Monticello, Utah, where he tried to hire a guide to lead him to Robber’s Roost, west of Canyonlands.
In 1934, bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was shot to death by federal agents and local police at a farm near East Liverpool, Ohio.
Joyline Musamba, the wife of the notorious armed robber Roy Pedzai Jambaya, appeared before Harare Magistrate Dennis Mangosi on charges of laundering $28,000, proceeds from a robbery her husband was involved in.
Jurors also heard from casino employees who said they are still haunted by their encounters with the robber.
One robber was killed; the other was arrested two weeks later and charged with murder for the death of his accomplice, as well as with burglary and armed robbery.
Police arrested an alleged robber who was trapped inside a pawnshop in Barangay Labangon, Cebu City on early Thursday morning, December 14, 2023.
The film tells a story about a young bank robber who is determined to try and save his brother with a disability from incarceration and spirals trying to find a way.
The Police Command in Gombe State says its operatives have killed a suspected armed robber in a gun battle, arrested three while six others escaped with bullet wounds.
There are nearly 7,000 different species of robber flies in the world — about 1,000 in North America alone.
Common combinations with robber
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: