Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: robbers
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɑbɚz]
Usage examples
  • About noon the robbers visited their cave.
  • All the robbers unanimously approved of the captain's proposal.
  • "You are robbers, you are pirates all; I know you; and if you land, you shall die the death."
  • While these things were being done, the forty robbers again visited their retreat in the forest.
  • Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero.
  • "The whelps and robbers!" he exclaimed; "how I should like to get at them! But their time will come.
  • "Who is this imbecile?" cried some, "stop him at once." "Kill him," shrieked others, "Help! robbers!
  • Ali Baba did not visit the robbers' cave for a whole year, as he supposed the other two might be alive.
  • The robbers stayed some time within the rock, during which Ali Baba, fearful of being caught, remained in the tree.
  • It wasn't a very pretty place to come to in those days, what with the robbers and other bad people who infested it.