thieve

How to use thieve in a sentence

Not until Ed O’Bannon won his judgment in court and pried back his name-image-likeness rights did the NCAA stop thieving from students.

Observe thief, but thieves and to thieve; loaf, but loaves; shelf, but shelves and to shelve.

I had not been with them twelve hours, before old Fulcher told me that I must thieve as well as the rest.

The father quietly observed, “I never knew the dog to thieve before.”

DOG BREAKINGWILLIAM NELSON HUTCHINSON

I havent the slightest doubt that I would thieve again at the earliest opportunity.

Here, as at most places, the natives of inferior rank showed a disposition to thieve.

CAPTAIN COOKW.H.G. KINGSTON

Though (consults another book) some jurists believe That a wretch who can thieve, Has earned a full stop, not a colon.

Let them know,' she said grandly, 'what awaits those who skulk and those who thieve.

The leaders will thieve and collaborate with organized crime.

They break into the wells as rats do into granaries, and thieve the water.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985