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How to use the word robbing in a Sentence?

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The notion of robbing pensioners to pay back the party for the costs associated with compulsory Covid testing and other expensive pandemic measures was never going to sit well with the general populace.

Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Abortion and crime are visceral issues that have an immediate concern to female voters, both are based on fears in a way, the fear of losing reproductive autonomy versus the fear of somebody breaking into your car, your home, somebody robbing you, or raping you.

Mike Madrid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Dillinger was caught robbing a bank in Bluffton, Ohio, which is not far from Celina, and they captured him and put him in the Allen County jail, and he escaped from that jail.

Ryan Stackhouse

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Jose Alba has our full support, new York City is in crisis and at this point we are just fed up with people robbing, looting, attacking, assaulting, killing our small business owners.

Fernando Mateo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no Robin Hood in this, these are thieves. They are not robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. The gas station owner is the least responsible for high prices. The cost of theft gets passed on in higher prices, and when people are driving around with unsecured stolen fuel, it is a concern to anybody.

Jeff Lenard

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Too many families are struggling to keep up with their bills. Inflation is robbing them of gains they thought otherwise they would be able to feel. I get it.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Wyoming deserves a congresswoman who will combat the disastrous Biden administration and hold them accountable for their policies which are ravaging our energy industries, destroying our sovereignty by obliterating our southern border, robbing our citizens of prosperity through catastrophic inflation, and encroaching on our constitutional rights.

Harriet Hageman congressional campaign

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

***(C)(P) I, RAS CARDO AM HERE TO DEBUNK ALL THE LIES TOLD OVER THE YEARS BY THOSE IN THE-REGGAE- MURDEROUS MUSIC INDUSTRY, AND TO DECLARE THE DECEITS AND DECEPTIONS ABSOLUTELY FALSE.I WILL SHOW ALL THOSE RESPONSIBLE AND CALL THEM OUT SO THAT THE PUBLIC AND THE WORLD WILL SEE JUST WHO THEY ARE AND THOSE CONNECTED TO ROBBING THE PEOPLE. THY KEEP HIDDEN FOR DECADES NOW.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

They steal that car after robbing someone, usually by force with a firearm, and after that, they're usually not done. They're [on a] crime spree. They're just beginning, so they're going to use that vehicle to drive recklessly through the city, rob other individuals to use that car to get away. … And unfortunately, carjacked vehicles are often used for shootings.

Marinos Marinos

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Trumps payroll tax holiday could drain the Social Security trust fund and said some states can not afford the 25 percent unemployment match, especially since the GOP has opposed additional money to state and local governments. Donald Trump is trying to distract from Donald Trump failure to extend the $ 600 federal boost for 30 million unemployed workers by issuing illegal executive orders, this scheme is a classic Donald Trump con : play-acting at leadership while robbing people of the support they desperately need.

Ron Wyden

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

What frustrated me a lot and made me feel really sad and sick was that I thought that the Haitian people and the Haitians who were in charge of the country would have taken [the earthquake] as an opportunity to make the country better, but it has not happened. My leaders have become more selfish, they have been robbing more. So instead of taking the opportunity to change the country, they've made it worse.

Harold Prévil

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There used to be traders who would come buy our gold and re-sell it, but the terrorists were robbing them as they had lots of money.

Zakaria Sawadogo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

One should no more refuse to request an extension of Article 50 because of what one might regard as the noble end of departing from the EU as soon as possible, than one could excuse robbing a bank on the basis that the cash stolen would be donated to a charitable cause immediately afterwards.

John Bercow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One should no more refuse to request an extension of Article 50 because of what one might regard as the noble end of departing from the EU as soon as possible, than one could possibly excuse robbing a bank on the basis that the cash stolen would be donated to a charitable cause immediately afterwards.

John Bercow

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These days instead of telling the police that robbers are robbing your house....just tell them that criminals are dragging out bags of money. My friend the police will be there in less than 2 minutes.

Mr vybs live

added by Mr vybs live
5 years ago

I will say that it is important to maintain our history and that when we go and start changing monuments and street names that were named after famous Atlantans, famous Georgians, famous Southerners and in some circumstances... famous Americans... you are robbing the next generations of what actually transpired, and it's very serious. It's a very serious offense.

Will Dean

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing – and that ends.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's going to change, tariffs will come way down. We're like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing and that ends.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing, and that ends.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

As a result of that, organizations who are in areas where cholera has broken out have had to use resources that they would have otherwise programmed for something like food insecurity or malnutrition, what we are doing right now is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Jamie McGoldrick

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Quit robbing people in the neighborhood. It's stupid ! .

Marshall Chism

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He won't be robbing nobody's house no more, nobody get robbed by this man no more. They don't have to worry about it no more I guess. Fort Worth officer Johnny Cox says the boys ran up to him and pointed officers in the right direction.

Kenyon Maloney

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He thought people was robbing Walmart, it's a little nerveracking because he thought he was doing the right thing, and it turned out to be the wrong thing that he done, so he says from now on he's going to mind his own business.

Lonnie Leonard

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

President Trump promised us he wants to 'make America great again.' That's not how you make America great, by taking $1.2 billion from the children and robbing them blind, why would he do that?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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