Sentence examples for thieving from high-quality English sources.

• Hardly any admit to thieving.

• The thieving boys were the popular ones.

• This style of thieving is not confined to the conveying of scarf-pins.

• I first become aware of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living.

• Meanwhile, Kandahar was at the mercy of violent, thieving warlords.

• “come, none of your GAMES,” be quiet, don’t annoy me; “on the GAME,” out thieving.

• La gazza ladra (1817; The Thieving Magpie), a semi-serious work, was a triumph in Milan.

• This would create a sense of drama when the thieving Bilbo stirs the beast from slumber.

Use thieving in a sentence.

• No good ever comes from involving those thieving idiots in your life, and then there’ll be a manhunt.

• Earlier, she had told him about the thieving egret, and he had promised to come back and fix the problem.

• But many African states have not helped their cause, often because thieving politicians are still in charge.

• There are stories of his thieving, particularly when he believed that an item would be better off in his care.

• Others want to keep their money safe from expropriation by fickle governments, and hidden from thieving criminals.

• Scamp, a graceless fellow, a rascal; a wandering vagabond; scamping was formerly the cant term for plundering and thieving.

• Corrupt, thieving GOVERNMENT, in which the politicians and bureaucrats in charge use the powers of the state to feather their own nests.

• But while Leicester grew in confidence, Spurs remained coiled and unflustered, thieving the loose ball and instantly spotting large openings.

thieving sentence examples

• Suppose those thieving middlemen were obliged to deliver grain, not to poor people in general but to named individuals who could confirm receipt by scanning their fingerprints?

• Consider these headlines about Southern lynchings from The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune, respectively: “Negro Brute Lynched: Attempted Assault on Young Daughter of a Farmer,” “Criminal Calendar: Two Murderous and Thieving Negroes Lynched by a Kentucky Mob.”

• Catwoman – the thieving, on-again, off-again love interest of Batman – was brought to life brilliantly by Anne Hathaway who deftly encapsulated her slinky, feline energy and gave an emotionally nuanced performance which offered a fresh perspective on the character after Michelle Pfeiffer’s turn in the Nineties.

• But one of the worst night sights I know in London, is to be found in the children who prowl about this place; who sleep in the baskets, fight for the offal , dart at any object they think they can lay their thieving hands on, dive under the carts and barrows, dodge the constables, and are perpetually making a blunt pattering on the pavement of the Piazza with the rain of their naked feet.