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How To Use Light-fingered In A Sentence

  • Our light-fingered fig climber commits acts of larceny while the crumb-laden colossus eats his weight in skunk soup and then falls into narcolepsy.
  • Action peaks during the visit of a circus - complete with elephants, tigers, and light-fingered pickpockets.
  • With light-fingered nimbleness he checked all the contents, drawers and secret hiding places in the dressing-case, finding everything intact.
  • Handbags, mobile phones on tables, coats on backs of chairs are all easy pickings for light-fingered thieves.
  • Angry Kid Shop Raider - Out smart, guards, dogs and CCTV to grab the swag by being light-fingered through 24 levels of frantic arcade action.
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  • the light-fingered thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the era
  • Some retailers think that if they report light-fingered staff to police instead of simply firing them, they inflame the situation and increase the risk of later legal action.
  • Over the last three weeks, light-fingered thieves have been helping themselves to power tools, lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, gardening tools and mountain bikes from sheds in Farnham, Godalming, Guildford, Clandon, Shackleford and Albury.
  • Floyd is not only a thief, but a runagate - light-footed as well as light-fingered.
  • But I do have designs on your... shall we say, light-fingered talents? ON A WICKED DAWN
  • This week they discovered the thief's identity and were stunned to find it was an inside job – the light-fingered scallywag lives on the course. Luck runs out for Kansas Jayhawks fan's talismanic T-shirt and shorts
  • Jack was convinced that the uninvited visitor was a light-fingered local looking for free coal.
  • Bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinseled dancers and old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
  • a light-fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank vault
  • Maybe we Scots have the light-fingered skills essential for shortbread, pastry and scones because so many of our kitchens resemble freezers in winter and fridges in summer, giving us the necessary cold hands.
  • Possibly some slant-eyed, light-fingered pickpocket was even then enjoying the fifty-odd yen his purse had contained. In Yeddo Bay

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