Learn How to Pronounce BURGLAR – BURGLAR in a Sentence

Learn how to pronounce BURGLAR correctly by understanding the syllables. Then see an illustrated sentence example.

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BURGLAR – it’s a noun with 2 syllables.

Stress the 1st syllable. It is pronounced:
BURR◦gler

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BURGLARY – Still stress the 1st syllable.

It’s pronounced: BURR◦gler◦ee

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BURGLAR
Definition: a person who enters a building illegally to commit a crime, usually theft

The clipart shows a thief climbing through a window.

In the picture we see a window covered with a strong metal grill.

The sentence example reads: The owners of this building hoped the window grills would be a deterrent against burglars.

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Examples of BURGLAR from news items:

Separately, inside the besieged city, the orphaned seamstress Anna has developed herself a side hustle as a cat burglar to raise money for her sick sister, Maria.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/books/review/anthony-doerr-cloud-cuckoo-land.html

There he slides open a secret compartment containing an old suitcase, inside of which is “the finest set of burglar’s tools in the East. . . . Over nine hundred dollars they had cost him to have made.”
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/why-o-henry-is-so-much-more-than-those-short-stories-you-had-to-read-in-school/2021/09/07/60d01654-0fd5-11ec-882f-2dd15a067dc4_story.html

Thefts have also taken place after stores have closed for the day, with burglars smashing through glass doors and rifling through cases to grab as many eyeglass frames as they can carry.
Source: Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/smash-and-grab-thieves-washington-dc-eyeglass-stores

The defendants argued they acted in self-defence while attempting to make a citizen’s arrest of a suspected burglar, but prosecutors argued race was a factor.
Source: BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59912361

In the comic books, Bullseye’s origins are unknown or vaguely suggested: one such origin is that he was a burglar named Benjamin Poindexter, who eventually worked for the Kingpin.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/6/17946242/marvel-netflix-daredevil-season-3-bullseye-new-york-comic-con-2018

If you are interested in how to pronounce BURGLAR, be sure to check other words in The Punctuation Guide such as:
How to Pronounce BEAUJOLAIS

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