burglary
IPA: bˈɝgɫɝi
noun
- The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
- (law) Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony.
- (law, US) Under the Model Penal Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.
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Examples of "burglary" in Sentences
- He denied the charge of burglary.
- Family, with ages as at the date of the burglary.
- The burglary was planned down to the last detail.
- Kiera agrees to help Vlad and performs the burglary.
- Some academics consider burglary as an inchoate crime.
- He was said to be in the process of an alleged burglary.
- Is it the name of the sauna from which they do the burglary
- Burglary and, for example, felony murder are not inchoate offenses.
- The person accused of the burglary, however, is an alleged burglar.
- In the scuffle at the burglary Scott would have had opportunity to steal it.