Sentence examples for robbed upon from inspiring English sources

According to Schlütermann, the man said he had been robbed upon arriving in Stuttgart.

Mr. Lochte went on to say that the swimmers had been robbed upon returning to the taxi.

His family, of Russian origin, arrived with just four suitcases and $800 and they were robbed upon arrival.

While Turpin eluded his enemies, making his escape to Cambridge, the others were arrested on charges of "violent suspicion of being dangerous rogues and robbing upon the highway".

Governor Taylor issued pardons for some of them, citing their claims that the police robbed them upon their arrest.

Yes, he was going to cut his pound of flesh out of Antonio, but he had been provoked: spat upon, robbed of daughter and ducats, goaded beyond endurance.

Two Sikh teenagers had been robbed, then set upon; their turbans had been torn from their heads, and the long hair that their religion commands them to cherish had been cut off.

During your travels, you can become ill, get robbed or stumble upon a local festival.

Backed by church and philanthropic groups, the group helped immigrant white girls from Europe and African-American girls from southern states who were then arriving in Philadelphia in great numbers, hoping to find work, but often preyed upon or robbed.

The four were robbed at gunpoint, then fired upon with automatic weapons, said Mohamed Ould Lemine, the police chief of Aleg, a town 150 miles east of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott.

A Burbank woman was robbed outside her home Saturday upon returning from a shopping trip to the jewelry district in downtown Los Angeles, police said.