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pickpocket

How to use pickpocket in a sentence

This strap makes it harder for pickpockets to slash the strap in their attempt to steal it.

The menacing thugs, petty criminals, and pickpockets sized up the intruder in their midst.

Be mindful when you’re gawking at your surroundings — pickpockets abound!

Why not have kept him here among the rest, and made a sneaking, snivelling pickpocket of him at once?

The pickpocket finds it easy to unsnap a handbag and remove some of the contents, especially in crowded places.

He was out of it in an instant with the agility of a pickpocket, was across the room and at Hade's throat like a dog.

"Crowd chasing a pickpocket, I imagine," said Trencher indifferently.

"Say, boss, they've caught the pickpocket—if that's what he was," he cried out excitedly.

Why did I think a commonplace pickpocket at the Bon Marché was a notorious criminal, wanted by two countries?

THROUGH THE WALLCLEVELAND MOFFETT

On his return to London he formed a connexion with one Lowe, and became a most daring pickpocket.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985