Example Sentences

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They speak a language that burgles and rains from their mouths like water through a pipe.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Every burglar who burgles in really humorous attitudes will burgle as much as he likes.

From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Here in America, when a man burgles your residence, you go and confide in a detective, who keeps your secret and gets another detective to help him.

From Remarks by Nye, Bill