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Robbed in sentence

209 examples of Robbed in a sentence

He robbed him at gunpoint.
He robbed every ounce of hope from my being.
John Kennedy was robbed of his young life; Bobby seemed almost to have been relieved of his.
In that incident, over 100 million people were robbed.
You have robbed that person of his urgency and ambition, and absolutely nothing happens.
And when his ashes were interred, his mother said, "I pray here for forgiveness for having been twice robbed: once of the child I wanted, and once of the son I loved."
That act, although ending his own pain, robbed me from ever getting to know him.
Now, Brutus is Venus' neighbor and "cause trouble" is what happened the day after Venus' husband died, when Brutus just came and threw Venus and the kids out of the house, stole all their land, and robbed their market stall.
Because then, if my fake place shows up on your map, I can be well and truly sure that you have robbed me.
- namely, "Who should I take care of?" - he told this story, the story of a man who had been assaulted, robbed, beaten and abandoned along a dirt road.
You done robbed my pocket, you done robbed my pocket of silver and gold, boy, of silver and gold.
Actually, I once paid like 60 dollars to see a very great actor to do a version of "King Lear," and I felt really robbed, because by the time the actor started being King Lear, he stopped being the great actor that I had paid money to see.
Have you ever been robbed?
The same spot, it was a crime spot where people were being robbed.
How could a film dealing with illegal Mexican immigrants being robbed and beaten over the border be dull?
They took one of the finest plays written in the last century and methodically robbed it of its heart, humor and humanity.
But by now, her longtime alcoholism and years of hard living had robbed her of her looks.
And if you do stay there longer then it won't be because you'd expect akshay or paresh (not govinda please!) but because you value your money too much and you want at least a short nap on the plush seating in the multiplex in return of the money they robbed you off!
Acting is terrible, there is no plot whatsoever, there is no point whatsoever, i felt robbed after i rented this movie.
They get robbed and this leads to a violent and murderous ending that foreshadows the stark and chilling ending to Taxi Driver six years later.
A train holding union soldiers is transporting $300,000 of gold, along with a banker Clayton, who's there to see it reaches its destination, but it's suddenly robbed by the bandit Monetero.
Not shown, but talked about, are those who put a gun to their heads and robbed them, leading one Lost Boy to comment negatively that "all black people in America are no good."
The original crew returns three years after they successfully robbed Terry Benedict's casinos.
The final proof is that despite Letterman's early lead, possibly because of the hype that emerged from the battle for Tonight Show succession, Leno's show has consistently proved to be the more popular, thus, in my mind at least, refuting Letterman's claims to be unfairly robbed of his rightful inheritance.
Of course, this movie is not the best example (and I'm only saying this in comparison) and it wasn't worthy of any Oscars (many feel it was robbed), but maybe it depends on the appeal.
Camden calls the police since she believes Buka has robbed her lover.
horrid acting.. you could do anything and its a better use of your time.. like watching TV playing shitty video games.. i feel robbed.
simply robbed.. of my time .
When the credits started to roll (unexpectedly) you can't help but feel robbed of your time spent sat watching this pile of rubbish.
Many of the smaller facts were disregarded (Carter was NOT number one contender at the time of the murders, there is no proof at all that he saved a friend from a child molester in his youth), but some of the larger facts, like apparently being robbed of a decision to Joey Giardello because of "racist" judges, is inexcusable to those of us who have seen the fight on tape, and completely disrespectful to Giardello.
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