burglarproof
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of burglarproof
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
But what most impressed a Chicago still living close to the stockyards was a private elevator and the report that the huge castle was burglarproof.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frank Dewey announced that he plans to market a burglarproof lock he designed while in jail.
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
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
