pickpocket
Example Sentences
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For 23-year-old Lucas Leach, who plays pickpocket Gabriel, returning to school to film Crookhaven was a cathartic experience.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
Are you ever concerned that you’re calling out a person who is not actually a pickpocket?
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023
His initial meeting with Grace, a pickpocket he picks up because she may hold a key to the keys, is flat, rather than charming.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023
She passes like a ponytailed Pistol Pete Maravich and she has the sticky fingers of a subway pickpocket.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023
And if not, then could Harry’s death have been more than just an awful coincidence, the result of a foolish choice to pickpocket the wrong man?
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.