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

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

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

She froze, and he repeated himself, barking, "The front. Move your pocketbook around to the front. Do it now. The guy's a pickpocket."

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris