Sentence examples for heist of from inspiring English sources

At the time it was labelled the heist of the century.

He plays Roy Earle, a pardoned bank robber setting up the heist of a lifetime.

That would have forestalled the great Hillary heist of china, silver and ottomans.

For added effect, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade — co-conspirators in the Miami heist of 2010 — were there, too.

"The French used their status as outsiders to pull off the heist of the century," beamed L'Equipe.

In an opinion piece for the New York Daily News, he described the case as the "heist of the century".

Mr. Bush's advisers and supporters asserted that the stage had been set for a Democratic heist of the presidential election.

He had already pulled off what was then the biggest heist of classified information in the history of American espionage.

The story finds poor Alvin sharing a cell with one of the perpetrators of a $42 million heist of gold bricks from the Federal Reserve System.

Trump wrote on Saturday that this was "a disgrace"; he said that he'd talked to a detective who called it "the heist of the century".

This is an edited extract from Inside Job: the Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century by Charles Ferguson, published by Oneworld at £12.99.