burglarproof
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of burglarproof
Example Sentences
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Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof.
From Time Magazine Archive
All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's Throw, outside Pittsburgh, and only people he liked and trusted ever got to see them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pharaoh Jack Hawkins, whose eagle-beaked visage bears a fleeting resemblance to Dick Tracy, employs his slaves and citizens to build a burglarproof pyramid that will hide him and his treasure until the end of time.
From Time Magazine Archive
His city house is of the spick and span order, and he evinces a great interest in burglarproof devices.
From The Night-Born by London, Jack
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