Sentence examples similar to stickup on from inspiring English sources
"There have been stickups on the street and I had beautiful pictures and the police were able to catch the guys.
And McFadden acknowledged he couldn't remember ever arresting someone on suspicion of a stickup in his 39-year career. .
In Nice, a jeweller who was the victim of a robbery shot one of the two stickup men as he rode away on a motor scooter.
Like Tucker, Bellew modelled himself on the stickup men of the nineteen-thirties, and he ran with a stage dancer named Jet Blanca.
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.
Joe meets Emma Gould in the midst of a stickup in 1926, with Prohibition in full swing.
Some appeared to be caught in a Wild West stickup, with armlike branches raised.
The New Yorker, September 3, 1932 P. 35 Tells about a stickup in Paul's Bar.
By John O'Hara The New Yorker, September 3, 1932 P. 35 Tells about a stickup in Paul's Bar.
"Cops would much rather go to a stickup than an E.D.P. or a domestic," Deputy Commissioner Fyfe said.
Black-car drivers say they run less risk of a stickup because most black cars take credit cards or vouchers, not cash.
