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

She tackles him after he is caught filching some grub, prompting my favorite admonishment of the episode, and maybe the entire series thus far.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2015

The reported that Taylor was filching every form of public assistance imaginable: social security, food stamps, Medicaid, and Aid to Families With Dependent Children.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2013

It carries duties with it, duties which are imperative and which to shirk is filching benefits without rendering an equivalent.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted