Sentence examples for thief from high-quality English sources.

• Thief!”

• He was the thief!

• He’s never taken a game from a man because they said ‘thief.’”

• They threw the thief on the ground and began kicking and punching him.

• I liked “The Book Thief.”

• —the men had the thief with his back against the wall.

• ., said, “Set a thief to catch a thief.”

• Justice would come from this group of men, and the thief knew it.

Use thief in a sentence.

• A thief is someone who comes in the night and steals his way into someone’s home.

• Just then the thief screeches into the car park in a brand new red sports car, radio blaring.

• To prosecute the thief would be a long, difficult, and, of course, expensive process, they sighed.

• Even without your password, a thief can usually still copy files off the laptop if they know what they’re doing.

• “It could be a local thief, probably one who received the proposal to steal it for very little money,” he speculates.

• Still, any crime-fighting strategy based on the idea of “taking a thief to catch a thief” can encounter ethical dilemmas.

• In this case study torture of the car thief can be provided with a substantial moral justification, even if it does not convince everyone.

• Zhao said Taiwan was attempting to cover up its misdeeds by blaming others and said it was a “thief crying ‘stop thief’.”

thief sentence examples

• …to directing theatrical films with Thief (1981), a thriller about a professional jewel thief (played by James Caan) that established his reputation for intelligent drama and stylized atmosphere.

• Kelly also appeared in To Catch a Thief (1955), a romantic thriller shot on the French Riviera, in which she was paired with Grant, who played a former jewel thief who may have returned to his old ways.

• On slow nights, he parks at the scenes of unsolved robberies that took place weeks earlier and imagines which escape route the thief would have taken, so that next time he can go straight to wherever the thief is headed.

• I’M AARON’S DEFENSE lawyer, so I’m not going to sit here and say that he was a thief, because I don’t think he was a thief, and I was prepared to defend him with all my heart, but I also, you know, being a lawyer-advocate doesn’t mean that I can’t see the other side of this issue, so I’m not—