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[ US /ˈθiv/ ]
[ UK /θˈiːv/ ]
VERB
  1. take by theft
    Someone snitched my wallet!

How To Use thieve In A Sentence

  • He thought the thieves would dispose of the shop's stock at car boot sales or use them for family gifts.
  • A mother has hit out at heartless thieves who stole her son's memorial from a lamp-post.
  • He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is, Necessitas cogit ad turpia, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels, murderers, traitors, assassins, because of poverty we have sinned, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Undercover cops set up a stall and posed as market traders to catch a gang of mobile phone thieves.
  • Foam attack: Thieves broke into vending machines at Teesdale's new sports centre at Barnard Castle to steal £100 cash.
  • One of the biggest dangers to commuters at the time was the constant threat of pickpockets and other petty thieves preying upon unsuspecting victims.
  • We want our border patrol agents chasing crooks and thieves and terrorists not good-hearted people coming here to work.
  • a pack of thieves
  • Read in studio Thieves have stolen seventeen rare parrots from a bird sanctuary.
  • Lately Nick and Lou have been as thick as thieves.
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