pickpocket

Example Sentences

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A delivery driver by day, he started filming pickpocket moments after saying he witnessed them almost daily, before posting them online.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

And so, I always equate it to a pickpocket.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025

In a column, The Chicago Tribune’s film critic, Michael Phillips, called Sightline “a bush-league pickpocket move” and “the latest tiny nail getting tap-tap-tapped into the coffin currently under construction for an entire era of filmgoing.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023

There was a time in Mexico that he and Joice were targeted by a pickpocket, who was apprehended trying to run out of a hotel.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2022

But partway through the pickpocket song, Martin suddenly stops singing.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli