How to Use rob in a Sentence

rob

verb
  • The cashier was robbed at gunpoint.
  • Someone tried to rob me.
  • Think your team just got robbed?
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • It was robbed of its day in the sun.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Adell robbed the Mariners of three home runs.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Larry thought she had been robbed.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The robots haven’t robbed us of that.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Some of you are gonna go home tonight and feel like you’ve been robbed.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The three men held the two at gunpoint and robbed them.
    Seamus Bozeman follow, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Yes, but that robbed her of her dream of being a dancer.
    Álex Ander, Vanity Fair, 17 Apr. 2026
  • In 1980 one of her guests tried to rob her.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The two-game skid that now has followed has robbed some of that hope.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The industry can rob you of so much joy.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
  • He was robbed of a chance to keep competing.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Even being robbed or hit by a car could prove fruitful.
    David Sedaris, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This is far from the first time the Louvre has been robbed.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Some victims were robbed in front of their young children.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
  • Tatis also robbed at least four home runs this season.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But that doesn’t rob the encounter of its meaning.
    Gary Greenberg, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Heavy sports betting can rob you of the joy of your team winning.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Instead, the three drove to his father's home to rob him.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There, two men dressed as women robbed the staff at gunpoint.
    Laurel Weibezahn, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2019
  • Earnhardt’s death robbed the sport of its biggest star.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2026
  • And the money's gone because it's been robbed off that card.
    Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Turf toe surgery, which left him in a boot, robbed him of three months of playing time.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • Brown was able to track down nearly all the tellers who’d been robbed.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In two years, the shop has been burglarized or robbed nine times.
    Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • For the love of God, just don’t try to rob the place, alright?
    Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 18 July 2023
  • Because they were robbed at cursor point.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • Dom and Davion were robbed of their futures, their hopes and their dreams.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026

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