burgle
verb (used with or without object)
to burglarize.
had burgled
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past perfectof burgle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He also said Brueckner had burgled holiday homes in the area and had children's clothes in his camper van.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2022
By the time Fernandes had burgled his second goal on 20 minutes, Istanbul were well and truly spooked: gaunt and wooden, with the bilious foreboding of a team who had eaten too much cake.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2020
Holding every position from reporter to managing editor, he had burgled a Detroit home for a photograph, caught neuralgia at a Montreal theatre fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside the store they found a tiny man, James McCauley, who admitted that with his partner, tiny Leslie Hahr, he had burgled many stores, using entrances and exits impassable to full-sized burglars.
From Time Magazine Archive
A mercenary burglar would naturally burgle things out of a house after he had burgled himself in, but a generous-hearted burglar would just as naturally un-burgle things into a house and then un-burgle himself out.
From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Rea Irvin
