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break-in

[ US /ˈbɹeɪˌkɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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