How to Use rob in a Sentence

rob

verb

• The cashier was robbed at gunpoint.
• Someone tried to rob me.
• Many of the things that are fun also rob me of that joy.
  — Bianca Alysse, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• For the love of God, just don’t try to rob the place, alright?
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 18 July 2023
• Some of you are gonna go home tonight and feel like you’ve been robbed.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2025
• All to rob a safe that turned up empty, the sergeant said.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2020
• Pitchford and a friend, Eric Bullins, went to the store to rob it.
  — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
• There, of course, will be the debate who was most robbed.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
• The man did not have a gun on his person and did not rob Mr. Hero.
  — cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• The man made a few more futile attempts to rob the store.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 8 July 2023
• When Afzal arrived, the two men got in the backseat, pulled a gun, and tried to rob him.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
• The aneurysm caused Tyler to have a stroke, robbing him of all function on the left side of his body.
  — Sam Gillette, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
• Heavy sports betting can rob you of the joy of your team winning.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
• In the spring of 2022, two men were drugged and robbed after leaving gay bars in New York.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
• In 1933, famous gangster John Dillinger and his gang robbed the bank.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
• The injuries robbed him of one of the parts of his game that had NFL teams salivating.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2023
• Brown was able to track down nearly all the tellers who’d been robbed.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2024
• These chants about Scousers robbing stuff - bring it on.
  — SI.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• These are the goals that transform a striker’s outlook, and he was robbed of that.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
• It was robbed twice in two days in late April and a portion of the front of the store remains boarded up.
  — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
• Householder told reporters that the Senate's plan robbed from the poor and gave to the rich.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2019
• The man allegedly told the cashier to call 911 and tell police the store was being robbed.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2025
• Sadek said about a year and a half ago he was robbed at gunpoint by a team of three robbers.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• There, two men dressed as women robbed the staff at gunpoint.
  — Laurel Weibezahn, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2019
• Such a change would likely rob the debates of some of their appeal.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• Betts kicked things off in the home opener with a pair of steals, a homer, and a catch that robbed Bryce Harper of a home run.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2020
• Harsh soaps can rob your skin of proteins and lipids (fats) and leave residue behind.
  — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
• Cain was then robbed of a base hit in the seventh on a diving play in center by Marte.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2019
• To save him, Edie has to rob a casino in an action comedy with plenty of horsepower.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
• For midwives, the closures have robbed them of their livelihoods in what remains a severely depressed economy.
  — Elise Blanchard, Time, 21 Aug. 2025