Sentence examples for a stickup from inspiring English sources

I think it was a stickup".

"This is a stickup," he whispered.

"Cash your gimme!" he'd say at a stickup.

"This is a stickup!" he shouted, waving a gun.

"Oh, by the way, this is a stickup," Wesley said.

Elsewhere it's a plea for mercy (as in a stickup; there is a gun).

Ariel Tejada, an occasional stickup man, described a night that began like many others had for him: He and a few friends were sitting in an apartment smoking marijuana when someone casually suggested that they rob a Brooklyn drug dealer.

Throw in a tale about how the main character's father once did prison time for an armed stickup and then became a leg breaker for loan sharks.

"It was a straight stickup," he said.

The judge compared our landlord's action to a "nonviolent stickup".

Donnie Andrews, a reformed stickup man whose story inspired the character Omar Little on the acclaimed HBO drama "The Wire," died late Thursday or early Friday in Manhattan.