pilfer

Example Sentences

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There, detectives watched a four-person crew suspected in the thefts pilfer more Scratchers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

There's never a need to pilfer through your cabinets, to be knocked over in a cascade of plastic storage containers à la those decades old infomercials, or to haphazardly use a cumbersome espresso maker.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2022

They break into garages, pilfer supposedly unreachable bird feeders and ransack trash bins, even defeating lids specifically designed to thwart them.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022

Did he send a staffer to pilfer them from the school library?

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

If I am to act in defiance of Miss Mortimer, I will do it openly, and not slavishly pilfer my right, as if I did not dare to assert it.'

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary