Sentence examples for armed holdup from inspiring English sources

Today has brought word of an armed holdup at a gas station, probably carried out by the escaped gunmen.

In April, a former football player, Antonio Goodwin, was convicted of first-degree robbery for his role in an armed holdup.

Reportedly to teach him a lesson because they felt he was making radio distress calls too readily, the officers put on balaclavas and terrified the probationer with a mock armed holdup.

The idyll soon collapses, however, thanks to an unfortunate threesome, and from here pretty much anything is swept through the floodgates: stoner gags, muddy white underpants, drunken teen-agers, armed holdups, a slew of penile-measuring jokes, a prison term, a near-drowning, and a vivid demonstration of what Casper calls "man-flirting," complete with its logical conclusion.

In February, a trio of Cinnaminson, N.J. residents already charged in a string of robberies were charged with armed robbery and conspiracy in the holdup of the Town Liquor Store on Route 130 in nearby Florence.

At the time of her arrest, she was wanted on charges related to the 1981 armed robbery of a Brink's armored car in Nanuet, N.Y., a holdup that was supposed to raise money for the Weather Underground and other radical groups.

So are armed juveniles who have exhibited a startling willingness to kill over virtually any slight, or during street-corner holdups in which electronic devices like iPods and cellphones are prized items.

The holdup?

What is the holdup?

Esto Es Holdup?

What's the holdup?