[ US /ˈpɪɫfɝ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪlfɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. make off with belongings of others
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How To Use pilfer In A Sentence

  • When a carload of thieves tried to steal oranges from our yard, I soon found myself outmanned and outgunned - and decided that 100 pounds of pilfered fruit is not worth your life.
  • For Daniel it simply wasn't worth the risk of being caught aboard a stolen transport ship just to pilfer one bonus load of olive oil. OFF THE CHART
  • `He will collect me, show me around, and see to it that I don't sneak off to pilfer any top-secret blueprints. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
  • They had been lifted from a garbage can used by bureaucrats in some Soviet Russian Consulate, pilfered by what old British spy novelists used to call a "charwoman", in Yankee parlance, a janitor. Richard H. Smith: Could a California Budget Fix Threaten National Security?
  • According to T-Mobile, until you otherwise hear from them, you can discount Pwnmobile's claims that he has been pilfering from the T-Mobile's databases "for some time," and has ready access to "everything, their databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009. T-Mobile confirms company records taken
  • Richard Prince has long reveled in his pose as a postmodern pilferer of other people's images—in being what's known as an "appropriation artist. When Appropriation Masquerades as Reconceptualized Art
  • She had been pilfering from the petty cash for months.
  • P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk WN.com - Articles related to Data Show Economic Rebound in Euro Area
  • I steal from dreams a pilferer who clings to vines of memory climbs again where blossoms sing – they seed a scent with redolent imaginings on which I feed Stealing From Dreams
  • As oozy honey-drops are pilfered by that filcher wee. 0 1592. From "The Old-Fashioned Garden" by John Russell Hayes. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900
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