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

He explained that if cameras detected a person spending too much time at a train station, the system could flag a possible pickpocket.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2022

Himmelsbach went to the police station in Mazatlan, where the pickpocket pleaded not to be sent to jail.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2022

I saw a few scrawny boys leaning out the open upstairs windows, hooting and whistling at the fallen pickpocket on the street below.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan