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How to use robbed in a sentence

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Every week in our local newspaper we read of yet another shop or post office that has been robbed, often at gunpoint.
Evening Press readers are rallying round a war widow who was robbed of her life savings by a heartless conwoman.
Farnworth were robbed of their big chance to gain ground on Egerton when their head-to-head was washed out on Saturday.
He robbed a car of children's Christmas presents because he was terrified of the guy who put him up to it.
Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel.
A gang of drunken youths robbed a woman and attacked passers-by when they went on the rampage in the centre of York.
Firing machine guns, they robbed the hotel's jewellery store just as it was being closed.
True, many individuals and groups justly received land or compensation for that of which they had been robbed by previous governments.
I was robbed of my walk today, kept indoors by a steady, rather unpleasant rain.
He's ticked off because he's being robbed and humiliated right now, kept down by poverty and the lack of a level playing field.
A gun was held to a teenage girl's neck by a mugger who robbed her of her mobile phone.
Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol.
It then went into receivership and as a result he was robbed of his pension.
Even Alexander the Great had to recompense an Athenian who was robbed on the way to Olympia.
A motorist who stopped in a lay-by was hit over the head with a bottle and robbed.
He was knocked unconscious and robbed in a vicious attack near Trowbridge Park.
Trust me, if you dine here and you feel the portion was too small, you wuz robbed!
England should not have stood by and seen a feeble people robbed without raising a note of remonstrance.
A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg.
The original Thugs were bands of roving criminals in India who strangled and robbed travellers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then Hagen, too, bethought him of the gleeman, whom bold Hildebrand had robbed of life.
You have deceived the ignorant, betrayed the unwary, lied to the simple, and robbed the poor.
This event happened the same day that the train was robbed at Muncie, Kansas.
At this moment the great skua who had robbed the puffin of its fish came in sight of his nest.
The next news is that she has been robbed of 1000 gulden, and suspects her landlady of stealing them.
I'll be sandbagged and robbed if I go back without any for the other fellows.
Once upon a time the ambrosia was robbed from the gods by Garuda, half giant and half eagle, the enemy of serpents.
I felt that she was possessed by some shapeless dread which robbed her of all self-control.
Strangers are not liked, and are only tolerated for the shekels that can be extracted or robbed from them.
I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced to be endured.
Then Billy and Segura held up and robbed several monte dealers, when on the way home after their games had closed for the night.
She's a pal of mine, if you want to know, the slickest thief that ever robbed a flat.
Another group robbed the smokehouse and smashed so many barrels of syrup that it ran in a stream through the yard.
And finally, if women be beaten by savages, and robbed by sots, what of it?
You have blown out the Sparks of love and kindliness, and have for ever robbed the Universe.
Alfred had ended every statement with the wail that if he had not been robbed in Bucyrus he would be all right.
A pause in the dialogue robbed Gertrude's next remark of any relevance it might have had.
Fires have scarred the sides, and pasturing has robbed it of flowers and verdure.
He was not going to be robbed of his triumph by a bunch of rascally, interloping vermin like wolves.
Midgard's chief hero, the real Teutonic patriarch, tries to reconquer for the Teutons the country of which winter has robbed them.
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