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US
/ˈbɹeɪˌkɪn/
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NOUN
- trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent
How To Use break-in In A Sentence
- Questioned in prison, he admitted both break-ins.
- German police called to a break-in at an apartment in the northern town of Itzstedt found the intruder still on the premises and hiding under a kitchen cabinet.
- The average break-in crook will be scared away, as for true killers/dope heads that's another story. I heard that if you load hollow point bullets in your home defense weapon, and if you shoot and kill an intruder, that you can g
- We'd take turns staying up and listening for prowlers or break-ins.
- After casing the joint and setting up a fence for the goods, the gang goes about a late night break-in and precision burglary.
- I'd fixed up the break-in myself, through Yannick Thiboult, a brocanteur, a junk wheeler who still owed us ten thousand francs. WHITE LIES
- Break-ins and robbery, armed or otherwise, in Switzerland is almost non-existant. PA Governor Calls For Semi-Auto Ban
- There'd been no break-in here; everything had been done in a civilized manner - which made it all the more sinister. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
- The break-in to the stud farm occurred in the afternoon or evening of last Friday.
- Nixon, under increasing political pressure from the investigations of the Watergate break-in, reluctantly reimposed a freeze in June 1973. Matthew Yglesias » FDR, Reagan and Our Current Predicament