purloined

Example Sentences

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Call it “Brian Jones and the Case of the Purloined Dulcimer.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

It's an observation so obvious that, like Poe's "Purloined Letter," it's easy to miss — and that's why "Saturday Night Live" deserves so much credit for acknowledging it.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2018

As a matter of fact, I talked again about “The Purloined Letter,” you park something right in front of people, and you tell them.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2017

He owns a copy of Poe’s “The Purloined Letter.”

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2014

Louis Lépine and Alphonse Bertillon had missed the lesson of the very first detective story: In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter,” the suspect hides a scandalous letter in plain sight.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day