Sentence examples for stickup at from inspiring English sources

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).

He is also a junkie, so stoned that he brings yellow rubber gloves to the stickup, as if he and Frankie were washing dishes on the night shift.

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

Highsmith found someone who knew one of the stickup men and who, at Highsmith's request, negotiated with them.

Anyone who becomes a junkie, crack dealer, or cellphone-stealing stickup artist is obviously bad at making life decisions.

A fastidious, bow-tied Nation of Islam mercenary and a drug-dealer-targeting stickup artist, respectively, the pair stand at opposite ends of an alleyway.

I think it was a stickup".

"It was a straight stickup," he said.

"This is a stickup," he whispered.

You play a low-level stickup guy, Frankie.

At the same time, they face many other hazards: drunks behind them in the cab, fare beaters, stickup men, Knicks fans filled with biblical despair, out-of-town conventioneers who think the drivers are mobile pimps.