pickpocket

Example Sentences

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When the time came, it was the “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” starring John Turturro as a sleight-of-hand artist struggling to stay solvent when fewer marks carry cash.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

Google/Android is the World’s Biggest Pickpocket Consider the overwhelming evidence from those that deal with Google.

From Forbes • Dec. 9, 2011

Pickpocket incidents in the year up to November 1 were up to 3,020 this year from 2,509 in the same period of 2010.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2011

In Glasgow, Pickpocket Francis Ryan got a 60-day sentence after he unwittingly plied his trade on an excursion steamer carrying 20 Glasgow policemen and their wives.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whitey had a good claimer named Pickpocket that caught Johnson’s eye; Whitey was equally enamored of Woolf’s riding.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand