Sentence examples for of a stickup from inspiring English sources
Joe meets Emma Gould in the midst of a stickup in 1926, with Prohibition in full swing.
Black-car drivers say they run less risk of a stickup because most black cars take credit cards or vouchers, not cash.
And McFadden acknowledged he couldn't remember ever arresting someone on suspicion of a stickup in his 39-year career. .
"Cops would much rather go to a stickup than an E.D.P. or a domestic," Deputy Commissioner Fyfe said.
He believed the men were casing the store for a stickup.
There is a kind of American poetry in a stickup gang seen chasing across the bedraggled backdrop of the Depression (as true in its way as Nabokov's vision of Humbert Humbert and Lolita in the cross-country world of motels) — as if crime were the only activity in a country stupefied by poverty.
Looking at the tapes frame by frame, they spotted an image of one of the chief suspects, Carlos McAdory, during a stickup.
Writing "The Bank Dick" under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves, Fields creates his last role for himself: the drunken Egbert Souse, a habitue of the Black Pussy Cat Cafe who foils a stickup at a bank and is made a security guard at the place (1940, DVD, Criterion Collection/Home Vision, $29.95, 72 minutes).
I think it was a stickup".
"This is a stickup," he whispered.
