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.

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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.
Back in the mists of time, power dressing was a thing for women who had to appear more masculine to be taken seriously, like stealth camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
He was dismissed for stealing bicycle parts.
One of the robbers stood on the victim's head while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a credit card and £30 cash.
Dave and Kathy are going to steal away on vacation.
They got comfortable on the rocks, with the waves roaring in, lapping at their feet, they stroked their bellies and chattered on about the sea, about stealing a small fishing boat when they should have been in school. September 17 , 2004
MONTGOMERY: A group of crooks in Montgomery stole a forklift, used it to steal an ATM from a bank, and a surveillance camera caught the whole thing! News for NBC13.com
Last I recall ninjutsu was the art of stealth, not the art of pitched one on one combat!
Foam attack: Thieves broke into vending machines at Teesdale's new sports centre at Barnard Castle to steal ￡100 cash.
Tonight I must sneak like the thief that I am down into the farmer's hencoop and steal one of his chickens.
She nodded snuggling deeper into the blankets and stealing their warmth.
Nick is also a professional safecracker who lives by a sworn motto: never steal from where you live.
A ram-raider returned to Medway in April to steal a Nissan Cabstar lorry from Commissioner's Road, Strood. Kos RSS Feed
I can't imagine a circumstance in which I would be willing to steal.
One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.
Whenever any one giveth thee aught, a thief stealeth it from thee! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The thief was perceived to steal into the house.
I stayed there for three days, until the snow began to melt, dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof.
They provide cover for a patrol against small arms fire and allow stealthy movement through hostile territory. Times, Sunday Times
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Horrible Boys
Is it a stealth bailout by the military or just smart business on both sides?
BANGOR, Maine - A local man with a long criminal history allegedly threatened a store clerk with a knife on Monday night after she told him he was seen on the store's video surveillance system stealing an item, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said on Tuesday. BangorDailyNews.com - News
TWO men were arrested yesterday on suspicion of stealing a cannon and treasures from a sunken 17th-century warship. The Sun
The court heard he was cautioned for stealing and crashing his father's car in February 2000.
She watched Dorothy carefully, to see if she ever took off her shoes, thinking she might steal them.
He was on his serene, almost stealthy way. The Sun
I stand here today humbled works on antithesis, a putting of terms into opposition with each other, whereby stand, apart from connoting the witness stand and stealing some of its sincerity, erects an uprightness to contrast with the lowness of humbled, from the Latin humus, meaning earth. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
For this cause also God has banished from His presence him who did of his own accord stealthily sow the tares, that is, him who brought about the transgression; [4433] but He took compassion upon man, who, through want of care no doubt, but still wickedly [on the part of another], became involved in disobedience; and ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
He preferred to die instead of stealing.
They are omnivorous, eating native birds and eggs, which they steal from the nest, and competing for food with birds.
His real purpose is to trick his way into your home to see what he can steal.
A little in this way -- but these similes are very imperfect, and will not bear close application -- the sap rises in a tree, stealing up branch by branch; and it is then called _ascending sap_. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
Missions for unmanned vehicles will gravitate toward those compatible with their primary strengths - persistence, expendability and stealth.
A feeling of drowsiness steals over me; that succulent cold chikor, followed by a generous slice of cake upon which I so nobly lunched, clouds somewhat my active faculties, and the article -- "A Bear Battue in the A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
He is half-Indian and a hateful, evil criminal who steals and murders without a thought.
I've been in and out of jail and round in circles for years - desperately wanting to get off drugs but finding no way to get off the merry-go-round of smack, stealing and the nick.
They say he made up the allegation after stealing money from them. Times, Sunday Times
Let's steal motorbikes and ride to Taunton! Times, Sunday Times
He said it would also be easier for hackers to inspect software and hardware to identify vulnerabilities and steal sensitive data. The Sun
You'd rather people die than give them health care, you'd rather people starve than give them food, and you'd rather cheat on your wife while stealing tax payers money to go to a foreign country to do it than remain faithful and stay at home doing your job. Obama: 'Act now' on health care
Violence, abusive behaviour and stealing from the family home are unacceptable. Taking Drugs Seriously
Will they lie, cheat and steal to gain political power?
Another influential kind of noncognitivism called “prescriptivism” claims that this sentence is really a veiled command whose true meaning should be captured using the imperative mood: “Don't steal!” Moral Anti-Realism
I heard him sayin 'he could not be everywhere at yince, an' couldna 'both watch coal thieves an' tattie stealin 'at yin an' the same time. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
It would seem that some politicians would prefer to use financial stealth rather than legislation to produce change.
But it's also just as much about sneaking, stealth, hiding, and disguising.
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.
With its full stealth, supersonic cruise capability, and electronics that make the Starship Enterprise look like a birchbark canoe, it is utterly unmatched as a fighter aircraft. Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.
What if they steal the money, or use half of it for travel?
Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.
A writer is suing director Steven Spielberg for allegedly stealing his film idea.
People in this town starved, several buildings were bombed and crime soared because you had to steal to eat.
Gradually their talk died and drowsiness began to steal upon the eyelids of the little waifs.
Middleton had denied breaking into the bank on 6 December last year while acting with others, with intent to steal.
He tried to steal my wallet, the dirty dog.
When you steal my car stereo, I can no longer enjoy it.
In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to 'colonise' and 'steal land' from the 'native' Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs. San Francisco Sentinel
That was the day when he finished eagle, birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, to steal the trophy from Colin Montgomerie, who had turned up wearing his saltire sweater, a champion in waiting.
Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away. Touch of Evil
Andrew said the thieves had cut through his bike lock before stealing the machine, which had been parked off Fossgate.
Wished you had something new and unique to wear that will steal a look from those around, when you go to a party?
Now there's a girl who knows how to dress for an event without stealing the bride's thunder.
Short of being caught red-handed stealing clients' money, accountants were rarely disciplined.
We're introduced to the title teen right before he learns he's the son of Poseidon and that he has two weeks to return a lightning bolt he didn't actually steal, lest Zeus start a Godly war (somehow without using the most powerful weapon in the world that was just stolen from him). Cinematical
They were so poor they had to steal in order to eat.
My escort explains that they are daman trails, in other words the trails worn by Turkoman raiders passing back and forth on their man-stealing expeditions, before their subjugation by the Russians. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Grint's got fantastic comic timing and knows exactly how far to take it, often stealing a scene with nothing more than a look.
There is always a table d'hôte and, at $6.95 for lunch, it's a steal.
If such a regime is in fact valuable, then the threat to incarcerate thieves may both reduce people's freedom with respect to one sort of action (by making stealing incompossible with remaining unincarcerated), while enhancing it with respect to others (by making it possible to accumulate, use, and trade private property). Coercion
Using the Smuggler as an example, you could choose to configure the cowboy opportunist as a "scoundrel" - a short-range stealth rogue, skilled in medicine - or a Eurogamer
Each local network of cattle stealing provided an alternative system of power and wealth in that locality.
By adding extra baserunning advances and steals, subtracting for baserunning outs and unsuccessful steal attempts and comparing the total to the major-league average, BIS calculates each team's net gain on the basepaths. Run, Run and Run Some More
Cut and come again, 444. beard of formal, 69. him out in little stars, 107. is the branch, 41. loaf, to steal a shive of a, 104. most unkindest, of all, 113. take the short, 753. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal. Steve Jobs
Johnson had ten points and a steal in the first half.
All three were charged with stealing personal property in broad daylight and causing a nuisance to society.
It steals from the U.S. treasury as rapaciously to enrich the corporate elite. Printing: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left'
Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram.
I'm going to get a dress for the ball, whether I have to beg, borrow or steal one.
He had picked somebody he thought he could work with smoothly rather than somebody who might try to steal the credit.
His real purpose is to trick his way into your home to see what he can steal.
You go through the different floors of that factory and come to where they are making big electrical generators and you see guards around with their rifles because Russia's bogey is that somebody is trying to copy them all the time and steal their secrets. Our Times Viewed From a World Perspective
She's a real tease, taunting him to steal a kiss or cop a feel.
The director said that the casual attitude of visitors had already cost the garden a lot of damage. " Many indulge in disfiguring trees and even steal precious plants.
It breeds more trouble, more neglect, more idleness, more rascality, more stealing, & more lieing up in the quarters & more everything that is wrong on a plantation than all else put together . . . A Renegade History of the United States
This might make a property being auctioned next month a steal. Times, Sunday Times
There are important variations, to be sure, in the conception of the extent of the in-group and in the limits of toleration of lying and stealing under certain conditions.
After his two best friends are shown the door, he hatches a plot with them to steal money from the firm by planting a money-siphoning computer virus within its system
In a game, if the dribbler turns his back to the basket and his defender, the next closest defender should leave his man and go steal the ball.
Furthermore, because of the cost savings derived from cutting out the middleman, Dell believes it can sell computers at lower prices than its competitors, and thus steal market share.
That was not so bad, but it turned out that the pedlar was a woman, and she came with a rawhide and camped in the office for two days waiting for Jimmy, while he came in and out of the back door, stuck his copy on the hook by stealth, and travelled only in the alleys to get his news. In Our Town
The object of this drill is to pass the ball to each other without the defensive man touching, deflecting, or stealing the ball.
The SEC, he said, "has no discretion-none-to fail to follow up, with serious investigations, when presented with knowledgeable, detailed, obviously highly competent, and in many respects easily 'checkable' allegations of … a huge fraud that is fooling thousands of people, stealing billions of dollars, and causing horrible injustice. News Dissector Blog
Ruby warns them they aren't ready to fight Lilith yet but they steal her knife and depart for New Harmony, Indiana. Supernatural Finale Spoilers
Dare they try to steal away now?
I caught him trying to steal some of my food from the extra helpings on the plate.
Those that need aid most are often so badly run that their leaders steal or squander it. Times, Sunday Times
Employees who steal are dismissed automatically.
Her task was to steal an expensive diamond necklace from the Queen.
The pride of China's naval fleet, wags say, incorporates the very latest in radar-evading stealth technology, so powerful it is as if it didn't even exist.
The attacker can steal network information, update database, forge user certification, destroy network node, release computer virus, even make the network paralyzed.
It is a classic example of a stealth tax. Times, Sunday Times
One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.
Burglars were caught red-handed surrounded by computers that they were intending to steal from a business.
A moment's hesitation allowed another kit to dash in to steal the prize.
A bicycle thief made a quick getaway after stealing his set of wheels in broad daylight.
There has been another, stealthier engine revolution taking place. The Sun
Car and simulacrum sounder clapperboard sodomist use the myrmeleon to onwards rook alder and polypropenonitrile mwera to cut osteal pay flagellant. Rational Review
As usual, expect me to steal many of Marcia's links, because she's much better at finding them than I am.
None of these no-good fishermen who'll pretend to guard our equipment and then steal it-get honest men. THREE IN ONE
It was a guilty conscience that made him admit stealing the money.
Today this world is covered with spiritual darkness crime violence, vice cheating, lying, stealing, killing.
As I lay "doggo" I formulated many plans for stealing their food to replenish my store, but finally decided that the risk was too great. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany
She steals the show as Billie Tricks, the raddled night-club hostess.
But yesterday the US grounded its fleet of the stealth fighters after one caught fire last month. The Sun
Quick as a flash, the little Italian was there to steal the ball and hook it into the net from an oblique angle.
Tempter," answered Redlaw, "whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is stealing over me while I speak, I hear again an echo of my own mind. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.
After all, no greedy hucksters could steal or plunder them.
A homeless man accused of trying to steal a hat at a convenience store battled three deputies in a brawl, grabbed at a deputy's handgun and had to be shocked with a stun gun twice before he was arrested, according to a Marion sheriff's report.
They also recommend sufficient time for public debate to occur - fundamental change should not occur by stealth.
So far not one person has been indicted from the lowliest mortgage originator who doctored an application to a CEO of a major bank who colluded with the Fed to steal billions from taxpayers. Matthew Yglesias » Justice and Stabilization
Back in the '70s, I attended college (state school) as a journalism/theater/film major, and since then, I've always kind of harbored a stealthy dream that I could have had a career in journalism. Will Durst: If I Were a Journalist I Would Pimp-Slap Condoleezza Rice
Most aircraft design schemes call for advances on wing and fuselage shapes pioneered in today's stealth aircraft.
The tax is only $8 and that's a steal for the show you'll get.
The colored light falls on the painter's large areas of pure local hue and fragments them; it steals across his blindingly harsh white highlights and suffuses them with saturated and pastel hues.
He turned to a life of petty thievery when his friend managed to steal a gold coin from a weary traveler.
One extreme is to take your time to plan, be stealthy and sneak around in the dark to avoid all confrontation.
During the riots hundreds of people seized the opportunity to steal property.
While the servants were cleaning up, I noticed that Itrenore was stealing some looks toward me.
Birds in this family are also known, unflatteringly, as oilbirds, frogmouths, and goatsuckers, the last based on an old myth that these birds use their expansive maws to steal milk from goats.
I do find it dishonest that Harper is pushing this effectively by stealth in this campaign.
It's the same thing, people deliberately setting prices and inflating charges and stealing our money.
Her brothers, observing how she cherishes the plant, steal the pot, discover the mouldering head, and fly, conscience-stricken, into banishment.
However, this has been seen as a stealth tax by some because incomes tend to increase more quickly than prices.
Herring gulls steal the fish they bring to their young one. Times, Sunday Times
The police explode a bombshell when they arrested the old banker for stealing money from the bank.
Wind power is intermittent, nuclear is costly and biodiesel steals land from agriculture. Times, Sunday Times
I doubt he would be woofing about him missing the shot because the bottom line is that the guy outplayed him to steal the ball in the first place.
Become a stealth assassin ninja. Sneak, kill , and crucially: remain unseen .
The stealthy ship had arrived on the planet several hours before, undetected by the Planetary Defense Grid.
Go on strike by all means, but don't be surprised if some unknown blackleg wannabe steals your job.
The stealing of exotic breeds of chicken comes amid a wider rise in rustling, particularly pedigree animals. Times, Sunday Times
Are there masses of bludgers stealing the sweat from the brows of hard-working New Zealanders?
The penalty for stealing _property_ was a mere _property penalty_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The stealthiest way of launching the mini-sub will be underwater, via another submarine. Times, Sunday Times
I hate boys," she exploded, "they're the worry of our lives, Car'line and mine, -- they get into our garden, and steal all our fruit, and they hang on behind our chaise when we ride out, and keep me a-lookin 'round an' slashin 'the whip at 'em the whole livelong time; O my -- _boys! _ Five Little Peppers Abroad
Stealth stumbled over her words, so eager was she to get them out.
I managed to steal a look at the exam paper.
A wild pitch is when the catcher misses it - if a man is on base he can easily steal a base, maybe two.
Are people entitled to steal the hero of a novel and put him in situations not envisaged by the original author?
Then, stealthily, the person darted over to another door and tried the handle.
After a stealth aircraft flies, maintenance workers must recoat the skin, repairing the tiny dings and burrs that increase the craft's radar signature.
But Clinton gained admirers in the old-mens 'club by working hard, forming cross-party allegiances, and most importantly, not stealing the spotlight from publicity hounds like her New York colleague, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. Al Franken's new act opens on a serious note but should it?
I think of myself as a solidly nonracist person, but if there's a chink in that armor, gypsies are it, because I once tried to sleep on a Eurorail train and had no less than four gypsy urchins come into my car and try to steal all of my belongings. Archive 2009-05-01
I'd like to get something like this, but wont use credit card, is there apay as you go card or something else out there, there are so many things made nowadays, can anyone help,this way its used up before the stealers for lack of a better term are able to get to it. thank you Convert old tapes into MP3s — now just $149 | Sync Blog
Stealing without administering fear is called larceny, stealing by administering fear is called robbery, the keyword here is “steal.” O.J. Trial: Prosecution testimony denied
He was afraid another scholar was going to steal a march on him and publish first.
Watch that cat stealing up on the mouse.
What do we do as a MOP, do we just let them in with open arms - ‘please steal my things - I wont resist I wouldnt want to effect your human right to burgle me’? or does it have to reach the other end of the spectrum, whereby if you want justice people are forced to action? The Revolving Door System. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
This mightie big stone sharpe topt, sliding downe the extream part from corner to corner, flat sided by the Diameter, was fower paces, at euery equall distant corner, whereof was the foote of a harpie of moulten mettall, their steales and clawes armed. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
A blackbird swooping down to steal a walnut from an alimentation générale. Nicole Garton: Ingénue Interview: Rosa Rankin-Gee
Cragg used it as a rendezvous or workshop and visited it stealthily on his "wakeful" nights. Mary Louise in the Country
In 1921, for instance night patrols made thirteen arrests for cattle stealing in the Southern and Western Provinces.
babies are natural scene-stealers
The researchers described the technical evolution of the malware program as disturbing: Only rarely do we come across crimeware that has been continually stealing and collecting personal information and payment card data, and compromising bank accounts as far back as 2006. A Huge Cache of Stolen Financial Data - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
(no absolute rule about it, however,) sometimes suddenly bursting forth, or stealthily opening to me, perhaps after years of unwitting familiarity, unappreciation, usage. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
Efficient concurrent functioning of both the guard and brood stealers is necessary to complete the task of stealing brood.
This is a constant quantity of a trans-historical nature, independent of all concrete specific political issues, and represents the level to which the right wing public collectively can be induced to believe that the Rest-Of-The-World (ROTW) is practicing collective deception upon them, preparatorily to a planned stealth conquest by subversion of ‘America’. The libertarian right hoax quotient
Since the 1880s, the national culture has celebrated the underdog - the Eureka gold miners, sheep stealing swaggies, renegade bushrangers, and striking shearers.
Police were today hunting ram-raiders who tried to steal a cash machine from a Spar shop earlier today.
Open ID will only be open to phishing if it contains sensitive, potentially stealable, information; and if you publicise that, even via blogger or wordpress profiles, then you're a nitwit who deserves whatever you get. Why would you use OpenID?
It was very early in the morning when the corn-stealer was discovered; but being caught in the act, and his whole attention taken up with the sweet milky ears of maize, his "spectacled" eyes did not avail him. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
No matter how good your hay is today, between now and feeding time, every rain, every windstorm, is going to steal nutrients from every exposed bale and stack.
Apart from promoting food crops the papers at the time were full with reports of poteen making, hen stealing and, even in two cases, of people stealing potatoes from fields.
We found out he'd been stealing from us for years.
In fact from an investment banking perspective it was a steal, and questionably legal in some jurisdictions due to the marketing of it.
Inane cleaned style styracine erratical osteal axograph aerocraft discovered cornfield decapsulate ultraprecision. Top Headlines from World Press Review
He knew it was wrong to steal, but the money just lying there was too great a temptation.
I recently received an e-mail from a friend stating how the "expletive" - Democrats were trying to steal the election via "expletive" - ACORN registering a "expletive" - bunch of criminals and non-existent, non-entities and how the "expletive, expletive, expletive" - need to be taken out and shot. What is "known" about ACORN
His tenor sax almost steals the show.
He committed another crime by catching the cab with no intention of paying and another crime by stealing from the fatally injured cabbie.
He played with the melancholy which the phrase diffused, he felt it stealing over him, but like a caress which only deepened and sweetened his sense of his own happiness. Swann's Way
No one is going to steal our plutonium - it is too well guarded, too hard to handle, too dangerous.
It is undemocratic to steal a free ride on a Turkmen train, my friend. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Of the performers, Eileen Atkins steals the show and gets a nude scene in at just 70 years young.
The unit had been stealthily airdropped at the Mediterranean beach, and had spent four hours making their way inland along the Tiber River to the city.
They stood a moment watching his low fulvous body steal across the track. Maid in Waiting
And the '"steal Injun hoss!" iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose mere voice had thrown the red-men into such a ferment. Nick of the Woods
He steals he, um, arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day" was the description of one colleague. McCain In 2004: "Bin Laden May Have Just Given Us A Little Boost"

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