filching

Example Sentences

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Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News • Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020

Luhnow offered this lament even as the Astros were filching pitching signs like itchy-fingered bank robbers.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2020

Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2018

One of the—er—'stunts,' as they call their ridiculous ceremonies, included the filching of this vase after dark and its burial somewhere on Bliss Island.

From Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Emerson, Alice B.