is robbing
- present progressive of rob (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Because while the Olympics may help the sport gather viewers, it has done little to reverse a steady decline in participation at the grassroots level, which is robbing the sport of its future athletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
And even in death, the power crisis is robbing South Africans of their dignity.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2023
“NASA is robbing money for a selected mission that they had baselined in their budget until as recently as last year,” says Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis.
From Scientific American ● May 9, 2023
Air pollution in Bangladesh is robbing the South Asian nation of economic growth as well as causing premature death and illness, the World Bank said on Sunday.
From Reuters ● Dec. 5, 2022
“Nay, the guard’s eyelids never close, and the storeroom seals are unbroken. It is someone in this shop who is robbing me.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
