stolen

Example Sentences

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Police said the stolen artefacts had "significant cultural value".

From BBC

I leave it in the common room, which is what you do with things you want stolen.

From Literature

It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.

From Barron's

When stray cat Kanyon's bed was stolen at a shopping mall, residents decided to build him a new home.

From Barron's

From the door, I see Father chanting from the Torah, being careful not to touch the Hebrew words with his fingers, since the silver yad, the pointer, was stolen in Toledo.

From Literature