stealing

How To Use stealing In A Sentence

• But they were so attentive to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and a silver sistrum. Satyricon
• 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. 
• It was only later, by stealing a look into her medical chart that I found out her new diagnosis: lymphoma.
• 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.
• 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
• She nodded snuggling deeper into the blankets and stealing their warmth.
• 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
• 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