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UK
/stˈiːl/
]
[ US /ˈstiɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈstiɫ/ ]
VERB
- steal a base
-
move stealthily
The ship slipped away in the darkness -
take without the owner's consent
This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
Someone stole my wallet on the train
NOUN
-
an advantageous purchase
the stock was a real buy at that price
she got a bargain at the auction - a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
How To Use steal In A Sentence
- Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
- There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging.
- He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
- It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
- Andreas was always trying to steal the key so that he could read it.
- She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by. Times, Sunday Times
- They having observed where the Chest stood, and wanting a necessary mooveable to houshold, yet loath to lay out money for buying it: complotted together this very night, to steale it thence, and carry it home to their house, as accordingly they did; finding it somewhat heavy, and therefore imagining, that matter of woorth was contained therein. The Decameron
- Lacy argued that he was misled by Stello when the arbiter pumped him out at second during an apparent steal attempt.
- He skipped bail and was caught trying to steal a chicken sandwich and some plasters. Times, Sunday Times
- It was only later, by stealing a look into her medical chart that I found out her new diagnosis: lymphoma.