purse-snatching
Example Sentences
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They have not only helped solve numerous crimes, including a near-fatal stabbing, a burglary, and a purse-snatching, but also found lost children and elderly visitors who wandered off.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024
She had lost her photo ID in a purse-snatching years earlier and, without a formal record of her birth, had been unable to replace it.
From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2022
This spring, she modeled in a campy ad campaign for Versace and Ssense in which she wrestled with a purse-snatching robot, and will appear in Steve Madden ads this fall.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2022
That’s brazen larceny by Marcell Harris, the kind of daylight purse-snatching TripAdvisor users warn you about in their reviews for the Roman Colosseum, and it resulted in Jackson’s first lost fumble of the season.
From Slate • Dec. 1, 2019
"It was an accident—nothing more or less," she rejoined, with an air of dismissing finally the purse-snatching episode.
From Empire Builders by Hambidge, Jay
