Synonym: housebreaker, robber, thief. Similar words: burglary, burglarize, gurgle, burger, burgeon, glare, hamburger, glare at. Meaning: ['bɜːglə] n. a thief who enters a building with intent to steal.
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61 Although he was to become Britain's most successful cat burglar, Peace showed no early aptitude, and was frequently arrested.
62 Having a burglar alarm makes you feel safer, I suppose.
63 Auguste flashed around busily, trying to reconcile these people with Rose's cat burglar.
64 But just as he is leaving, Charlie thinks he is a burglar and grabs him.
65 Accompanied by his wife and stepson, he headed south, leaving his mark as a burglar.
66 The man broke into the mansion by smashing a downstairs window, but the burglar alarm apparently failed.
67 The police report made it clear that the burglar was a professional.
68 Ironically,(http://sentencedict.com/burglar.html) he had decided not to install a burglar alarm before the break-in occurred.
69 Police believe the burglar got in through the kitchen window.
70 He got into bed as carefully as a burglar climbing through a window.
71 Trying to find out for certain if you were the burglar, and laying a little trap for you if you were.
72 The burglar also tried unsuccessfully to break into the house and smashed a double glazed window.
73 He was attacked in Sandbach after confronting a suspected burglar.
74 Even Rose had no proof that the cat burglar was in Cannes.
75 One does not normally anticipate the presence of a burglar.
76 Actually, Rutledge is a thief who employs his abused, trained ape Dunston as a simian cat burglar.
77 The entire house lights up when a burglar or fire alarm is triggered.
78 He was attacked at his home after confronting a suspected burglar.
79 By the time the burglar alarms had alerted staff the birds were gone.
80 Health officers in Macclesfield are to be empowered to go into houses and switch off noisy burglar alarms.
81 The easiest place for a burglar to gain access to a house is through patio doors.
82 He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm.
83 Ultrasonics technology is used in certain burglar alarm systems which trigger on detecting the sound of breaking glass.
84 It was reported, in Baberton Mains, that a special offer for the installation of burglar alarms had been made.
85 I was frightened to death when I saw a burglar in the house.
86 She was woken early this morning by a burglar alarm.
87 The burglar as Renaissance man, Luther sketches Old Masters in museums.
88 A security device might allow one person to enter, but phone the police if it detects a known burglar.
89 A 79-YEAR-OLD man was struck with a hammer by a burglar who broke into his home, Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday.
90 We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle.