stealing

[ UK /stˈiːlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈstiɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. avoiding detection by moving carefully
  2. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
    the thieving is awful at Kennedy International
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How To Use stealing 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. 
  • 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
  • TWO men were arrested yesterday on suspicion of stealing a cannon and treasures from a sunken 17th-century warship. The Sun
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