thief

How To Use thief 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
• The thief walked off with my gold watch
• The thief smiled at the small mound of diamonds piled inside.
• Tonight I must sneak like the thief that I am down into the farmer's hencoop and steal one of his chickens.
• Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself. 
• Police were today searching for a thief who snatched hundreds of pounds from a busy shop in Walton.
• And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes. Letters to Dead Authors
• Dororo's main character Kou Shibasaki (The Sinking of Japan) as the woman warrior Dororo, who was a precocious street child and self-styled "greatest thief in all of Japan".
• 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.