How To Use Purloin In A Sentence

  • He was feeling for Bean the contempt which a really distinguished safe-blower is said to feel for the cheap thief who purloins bottles of milk from basement doorways in the gray of dawn. Bunker Bean
  • Bits of our constitution were actually purloined from the United States Constitution.
  • To the delight of many, Gary correctly spelled "palisade" as the rest of the competitors, in a tense tie-breaker, fell by the wayside stumbling over words such as "usurper", "purloin" and Nst online
  • He then graduated to purloining software of major corporations, including major electronic manufacturers.
  • By prominent members of the international climate science community whose "Climategate" e-mails purloined from the prestigious East Anglia University Climate Research Unit that exposed clear evidence of data manipulation, concealment of public records and exclusion of disagreeable research findings from influential publications. It's Time To Pardon Carbon
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  • Sometimes it's impossible to not purloin an excerpt from another person's blog.
  • They snatched wallets, purloined purses, ‘borrowed’ tools, burgled houses, snitched firewood or drying clothes or even chickens.
  • It would have to go into a cold place to preserve its sharpness, but for good measure he had also purloined a discarded offcut of thin leather, and made a careful outline of the print, marking where heel and toe were worn down, and the diagonal crack across the ball of the foot. The Rose Rent
  • After virus moves may the information of code of QQ Zhang name of purloin user.
  • I molded the tuille on an upside down mini muffin tin to make the cup, then put a rosette of the white chocolate whipped cream inside, loaded on the raspberries and topped it with some purloined candied almonds that another group made for a cake. Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: White chocolate pain-in-the-ass
  • Purloined, which was published in an edition of 750 numbered copies, isn't an easy book to read.
  • If you chance to take an elegant drive up the 'Fifth Avenue,' and meet a dashing equipage -- say with horses terribly caparisoned, a purloined crest on the carriage-door, a sallow-faced footman covered up in a green coat, all over big brass buttons, stuck up behind, and a whiskey-faced coachman half-asleep in a great hammercloth, be sure it belongs to some snob who has not a sentence of good English in his head. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • Were old trees being purloined, appropriated wrongfully, when they were sectioned by scientists?
  • In return they are not held liable for the acts of their customers (e.g. transporting dangerous substances, purloined intellectual property, etc).
  • The whole issue here is whether their colleagues on the Senate staff side were purloining Democratic staff memos to aid that planning.
  • You can't get bladdered, purloin a pedalo and then sink it in the local lake without expecting some kick-back. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Want illicit concealed to exist only, have by the likelihood of purloin far from possibly.
  • It's all about the shoes: A Bronx-based street drama that recycles every imaginable trope, helmer Agustin's "Falling Awake" is underacted, overheated and uses a pair of purloined, high-end sneakers as a 400-pound allegory for getting your priorities straight. Variety.com
  • Japan and Korea purloin American technology as it comes off the drawing boards with the help of their governments.
  • Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan: Book summary
  • I decided I could purloin the box without worrying that I was obstructing the police in the investigation of the crime. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The character Alex McLeish has given to his side is best understood when you recall how first Rangers, and then Celtic, purloined two of his most promising players.
  • I do wonder how Bob Dole protégée Sheila Bair evaluated "WaMu's extensive collection of art and artifacts" when she assigned a price of $1. 9B to the $307B she purloined from the bank and from the NW for Wall St Nation's own Jamie Dimon. Food for thought -- spicy food (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • I decided I could purloin the box without worrying that I was obstructing the police in the investigation of the crime. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • He must have purloined a key from somewhere.
  • The family narrative of revolutionary heroes and frontiersmen is undermined by the eventual disclosure of the family secret: their ancestral lands were purloined from the original, aboriginal owners.
  • Japan and Korea purloin American technology as it comes off the drawing boards with the help of their governments.
  • Round Micon's homestead and purloin his grapes at evenfall. Theocritus, translated into English Verse
  • Robert Aickman, who wrote some of the finest supernatural fiction of the 20th century, purloined the word to describe the effect he strove for in his work.
  • Thomas could purloin a selection to fill a convenience store. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
  • Their images are purloined, confiscated, appropriated, stolen.
  • The film opens with Lloyd clutching a briefcase containing one of the diamonds, intent on preventing Max and Lola from purloining it.
  • He claims that his purloined oil is sent to a crude refinery deep in the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta and then sold off at a discount to poverty-stricken local people.
  • But, whatever solid or figure is used to illustrate color relations, it must combine the three scales of hue, value, and chroma, and these definite scales furnish a name for every color based upon its intrinsic qualities, and free from terms purloined in other sensations, or caught from the fluctuating colors of natural objects. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma
  • To make the photomontages, Tuggar purloins images from films, magazines, the Internet and other public sources.
  • Les Synonyms: dérober = to purloin chiper = to swipe, filch piquer = to pinch, to nick Tourism
  • Yet in your posts #s 626 and 647 you refer to Iraqi resistance fighters as “Haji” (a derogatory term obviously purloined from the “Johnny Quest” series from years ago, referring to the dark skinned side kick). Think Progress » VIDEO: Schmidt’s Shame
  • Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist. Sound Politics: What does "pragmatist" mean?
  • The Crows sold the purloined furs to Samuel Tulloch at Fort Cass.
  • Car chase, rooftop chase, sewer chase, apartment knife fight chase, boat chase, plane chase, Chase-Morgan, certainly they all were purloined from the Bourne genre but somehow Bourne’s were more believable. Quantum of Solace review
  • Struts are fixed to each side of the posts to provide further support to the ridge purloin.
  • She purloined a good breakfastcupful, and divided the spoils with her four confederates. The Luckiest Girl in the School
  • Elsewhere we have to purloin a ladder to get a box down, so we can open it.
  • The purloined memo made the Blair House meeting and Aspin's dip into the tank at the Pentagon look like a double sham.
  • Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan: Book summary
  • His free arm moved to the pouches on her belt, his fingers deft and nimble as a squirrel as he purloined some component.
  • I have always thought 'vivacuous' is a good word, and hope one day to write a book about this phenomenon, using a title purloined from some Fitzroy graffiti, 'Gentrifuct'. Dis-O Week
  • Hollywood executives must assume that no one in that great country of theirs can read subtitles, so there's nothing wrong with purloining the imagination of others to present North American versions of Japanese ghost stories.
  • And she was at Balmoral, the queen's Scottish estate and purloined a few letters from Prince Charles' briefcase, sent them down to me via an intermediary.
  • That case leads Sam into investigating stolen gold coins purloined on the San Anselmo. Spade & Archer-Joe Gores « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • I ask, pencil poised above my personalized notepad purloined from the office.
  • Some of the e-mail messages, purloined last November, were mean-spirited, others were dismissive of contrarian views, and others revealed a timid reluctance to share data.
  • Keep in mind that trademarks don't trigger a siren every time someone purloins your idea.
  • I was using a pen that I'd purloined from the office.
  • Their caper involves a nightlong journey of picking up cash all over town in a purloined bank van with Wayne and Henry posing as bank guards assigned to collect all this money.
  • Subtle and persistent with notes recalling the remontant blossoms of trousers, socks, and purloined classified documents, this perfume captures just the right balance of national security/insecurity with exquisitely subtle layers of anxiety, perspiration, and criminal intent. "Does he have sex appeal?... Can you smell the English leather on this guy?"
  • Holroyd secretly purloins a ‘fistful’ of Collis's papers and drives off with them.
  • Purloining a potty from a vacant construction site seemed to be the answer. The Creepy Crapshack Story Contest
  • Now we have a batch of purloined clear plastic buttons, ready to sew on his shiny uniform shirt.
  • Nevertheless, partial socialization website however the information data that purloin user registers, seek profit from which.
  • I must say that I never, myself, discerned in him any literary talent or literary learning, but I noted how quick on the uptake he was to purloin the ideas of other people, and then parrot them at short notice.
  • Why should a fledgling charismatic church leader be able to purloin another church's title?
  • Their caper involves a nightlong journey of picking up cash all over town in a purloined bank van with Wayne and Henry posing as bank guards assigned to collect all this money.
  • I'm not saying people should go around purloining things, but the bottom line is, it isn't murder.
  • The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
  • It seemed that I had somehow purloined a shopping bag laden with firecrackers, blockbusters, cherry bombs, roman candles and sparklers from the Giftland shop at the nearby St. Louis Street Shopping Centre.
  • Ten minutes later, everyone was back in their seats and Tom, who had purloined the horn from the long basket attached to the side of the guard's seat, blew a tantivy into the night and Duncan, muffled from neck to heels in the big coat, set the horses in motion. The Last Gamble
  • The powerful amulet of Samarkand, which is usually in the safekeeping of the government, is purloined by the wicked Lovelace, who, naturally, wants to use it for his own nefarious purposes.
  • He must have purloined a key from somewhere.
  • Overheard at the Bunch Family Salon, as WonderBaby raced in circles with a giant bottle purloined from the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre Props Corner: Dads Can Be Lactivists, Too! | Her Bad Mother
  • Most illegal online loot was fenced through four so-called carder sites—marketplaces for online criminals to buy and sell credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other purloined data. One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards
  • Trafficking in purloined materials for the sisterhood. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES
  • Thomas could purloin a selection to fill a convenience store. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON

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