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[ UK /stˈiːl/ ]
[ US /ˈstiɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. steal a base
  2. move stealthily
    The ship slipped away in the darkness
  3. take without the owner's consent
    This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation
    Someone stole my wallet on the train
NOUN
  1. an advantageous purchase
    the stock was a real buy at that price
    she got a bargain at the auction
  2. 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.
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