Robbing Sentence Examples

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  • It was criminal - robbing others of their dignity that way.

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  • If the colony is badly depleted reduce the entrance to guard against robbing.

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  • Ashley was okay, and Jessi would do anything to keep her that way, even if it meant robbing some stranger named Xander.

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  • A portion of this may be got by the process known as robbing the pillars, but the coal so obtained is liable to be very much crushed from the pressure of the superincumbent strata.

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  • The stored tears continued to flow and the sobs wracked her body, robbing it of the ability to speak – barely allowing a breath to be drawn.

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  • Having convoked his boyars he reproached them collectively with robbing the treasury and committing acts of injustice, and he caused one of them, a Prince Shuiski who happened to be in power at the moment, to be seized by his huntsmen and torn in pieces by a pack of hounds, as a warning to others.

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  • By the use of rock-filling it is even possible to dispense with pillars of mineral; or, if pillars are left, the use of rock-filling greatly facilitates subsequent robbing operations.

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  • In dealing with this outburst of fanaticism many of the princes, both spiritual and secular, displayed vigour and humanity, but Charles saw only in the sufferings of this people an excuse for robbing them of their wealth.

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  • The stored tears continued to flow and the sobs wracked her body, robbing it of the ability to speak – barely allowing a breath to be drawn.

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  • Grave robbing ghouls, that is all New Labor are.

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  • Robbing us!... and so on.

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  • Nothing new, except that the soldiers are robbing and pillaging-- October 9.

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  • This method can lead to a break down in vitamins and antioxidents, further robbing the food of it's nutritional content.

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  • Often suffers from too early a start in spring, and the usual method of planting as specimens in grass, the grass robbing the tree.

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  • A corpse bride trader usually gets the corpse by robbing graves.

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  • Everyone wants younger-looking, clear skin, but not everyone realizes that their diet may be robbing them of those attributes.

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  • Try to resist this urge, as it puts a lot of strain on your sensitive shoulders while robbing the intended muscle of much of its benefit.

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  • Dean had brief thoughts of the errant preacher robbing a dead hooker but kept them to himself.

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  • Apart from making the pond unsightly, algae can pose a threat to fish by robbing the water of oxygen at night.

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  • If you use more than a few pounds, odds are you start involving other, stronger muscles and end up robbing yourself of most of the benefit of the exercise.

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  • They have one child together, and Edwin was robbing houses to raise money for the family.

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  • She whirled away and paused in front of the bathing basin, a sigh robbing her frame of tension.

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  • And who am I robbing?

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  • She wasn't about to give Xander any leverage into her life, especially since she was planning on robbing him.

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  • In the robbing of pillars, timber is necessary for the support of only a single line of timber and lagging over the level, called the stull.

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  • He was removed to Wells, where he was "arraigned and next day put to execution for robbing of Glastonbury church."

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  • I said, "I'm thinking about robbing the place."

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  • He saved her life, and she was going to repay him by robbing him blind, because she had no other choice.

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