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

The wretch whom av'rice bids to pinch and spare, Starve, cheat, and pilfer, to enrich an heir, Is coarse brown-paper; such as pedlers choose To wrap up wares, which better men will use.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)