Example Sentences

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Black says states have been robbing Peter to pay Paul, increasing their investment in bridges at the expense of repaving and rebuilding of highways.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2015

"It must be for better heads than ours to decide whether this is of force; but, oh, Janet! if we have been robbing the orphan all these years!"

From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

"You have been robbing the stage?" he demanded.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Do you suppose that I would come around here to-day and make an open confession that I have been robbing you for all of these years?

From Tales of the Road by Crewdson, Charles N. (Charles Newman)

"And if I had taken them away from him I should have been robbing the woman I love—don't you understand, Jane?"

From Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice