pilfer

Example Sentences

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It wasn’t a practice pilfered from a previous coach.

From Seattle Times

The fugitive financer is accused of masterminding a money laundering and bribery scheme that pilfered billions from the Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB.

From Seattle Times

After hacking your way through a parade of low-level enemies, and past a mini-boss, you meet the large bird that pilfered the Demonic Forest Spirit’s soul.

From Washington Post

In 2012, a California beekeeper was arrested and accused of stealing 80 of a competitor’s hives and mixing the pilfered bees in with his own.

From Seattle Times

The thought that we need “a revived Christian democracy in the United States” that would “draw upon official church teaching as well as pilfer from the best of secular culture” is truly frightening.

From New York Times