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.
An entirely free public service, all you need to do is call her up and Geneviève will happily stop by to scope out your crib and offer suggestions on how you can better safeguard your digs from thieves.
Mr Crawford has put a padlock on the fuel tank but suspects it won't be enough to stop determined thieves.
While persuading believers to put less emphasis on ritual, he must also set up a real deterrent - courts with real teeth that do not kowtow to rich thieves.
Thieves broke into the gallery and made off with paintings valued at over $2 million.
Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
The thieves had scaled two fences and dragged the pup out of her locked kennel and lifted her over the walls, leaving two less valuable dogs behind.
Plant prickly hedges such as pyracantha, holly or hawthorn to deter thieves and add sturdy trellis to fence panels to make fences more difficult to climb over. IcNewcastle
Of course, what all of this means is that the thieves cased the joint during the day and came back that night to make their heist.
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
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.
The police set a trap for the thieves.
At times came robbers and thieves, at times came diseases among the beasts and shortness of food, once the country was worried by a pack of boar-hounds he helped to kill; he went through many inconsecutive, irrelevant adventures. The War in the Air
A builder was struck over the head with a scaffold pole after trying to stop thieves fleeing from a building site with a power tool.
Thieves have recently targeted unsuspecting victims by showing them a map and asking for directions.
When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
Likewise ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ to distinguish from the other films in which Errol Flynn buckled swashes and stuff.
His friend summoned the genie, and made a wish that all of the forty thieves would be sent to a land far away.
In California thieves can remove a platinum-filled catalytic converter in ninety seconds. Apocalyptic Fun With Peak Everything « Skid Roche
Andrew said the thieves had cut through his bike lock before stealing the machine, which had been parked off Fossgate.
The thieves escaped in a stolen vehicle.
New mobile wardens will be laying on night-time patrols to deter vandals and thieves who prey on visitors.
The thieves cut a hole in the fence.
The thieves ran away when the burglar alarm went off.
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
The thieves didn't pinch the tapes of the show, for some reason, which suggests they were pretty discerning.
York war veteran Joe Munday today spoke of his anger towards thieves who ransacked his house and stole his prized medals.
I'm going to scout around for a while and make sure there aren't any thieves.
Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram.
Conflict has simplistically been blamed on stock-thieves, but police have also been accused of taking sies, and Mhlaba has alleged organised crime and politics also fueled the conflict. ANC Daily News Briefing
The cheeky thieves replaced the photos with a Dot Cotton ashtray.
The officials said the board's underground fibre-optic network between Dhaka and Cox's Bazar is often severed by the Roads and Highways Department and other agencies during maintenance work and by cable thieves, resulting in frequent service disruptions. Frequent optical cable cuts worry Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board
In instances where property is stolen, thieves can and will be traced, and dealt with accordingly.
the two were thick as thieves for months
In a full parking lot at a South Los Angeles strip mall, complete with sushi, Starbucks and a beauty nail shop, not every motorist can accurately guess what's popular with car thieves these days.
the expanded window will give us time to catch the thieves
When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
Reducing the number of police is just a thieves' charter.
Cash machine crime is increasing in Surrey and there have been incidents of cards being cloned after thieves tampered with machines.
Thieves had broken into the car in broad daylight and stolen the stereo.
They are all reformed criminals - drug dealers, pickpockets, and thieves who have agreed to go straight and earn their money honestly.
By no short system of events, I joined part in a clan of cutthroat thieves.
COOPER: His reign of corruption would last three decades, spawning the term "cleptocracy," rule by thieves. CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006
The conductor told us to lock the cabins and not let anyone inside unless he told us to because thieves pretending to be police quite often preyed on the sleeping cars parked in the sidetracks.
They are all reformed criminals - drug dealers, pickpockets, and thieves who have agreed to go straight and earn their money honestly.
Earlier this week we reported four violent robberies involving elderly women when thieves tried to snatch handbags.
He turned to a life of petty thievery when his friend managed to steal a gold coin from a weary traveler.
And even in plays with twists and turns and convolutions of the storyline such as Bartholomew Fair where the names of the characters -- Littlewit, Winwife, Quarlous -- tell us what they are, their games of language and wordplay make the plot -- Puritans and rogues meet up at a county fair and fun and thievery ensue -- secondary to the fun and revelry. Play on Words
A Garda helicopter combed the skies between north Roscommon and Sligo town after the thieves targeted Sligo and other towns.
Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers. The Captive
‘Operation Cobra’ sounds like a plot by undercover CIA operatives to assassinate a Central American despot, rather than the local constabulary's crackdown on car thieves.
There are hit men, murderers, philanderers, thieves, betrayers, and other assorted riff-raff.
But, to thieve a time-worn phrase, there are probably as many answers to the second question as there are economists.
Thieves have raided a motorway petrol garage three times in a fortnight one of them wearing a jacket he had stolen on an earlier visit.
At times Cord's own'talents verged on mountebankery. and the best of mountebanks had no little skill at thievery and its adjunctive crafts. Night Arrant
Thieves have been preying on motorists who leave their keys in the ignition and engines running to defrost their cars.
A bike-mad youngster who was geared up to compete against adults in motorcycle trials has had his dreams shattered by thieves.
On Anglesey, thieves got away with almost ￡4,000 worth of property from an isolated barn at Brynteg.
One of the things I adore about Jet Li is the way he often plays this terrifically competent martial arts expert who at the same time retains a sense of innocence and humility and a sometimes comedic lack of suavity around attractive women (this movie includes a mother-daughter team of thieves, so you can be sure there is some comedy). 2008 Film Reviews: More Catching Up
While she was asleep, thieves broke in and stole her handbag.
The thieves easily outran the policewoman who was chasing them.
I bought another safety lock as an additional insurance against thieves.
Thieves are also using bamboo canes with magnets on the end to fish keys through letter boxes.
The swineherd is responsible for many swine, which are vulnerable to thieves.
A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
Oxygen thieves, vermin and blowflies is how one particular group of veterans regard these imposters, running their own investigations of frauds and posting the results on their website. ARTHUR REX CRANE
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
The Center for Security Policy wants Americans to think that stoning and amputations are around the corner, but the report can't quite explain why stonings are so rare and the streets of Saudi Arabia and Iran are not filled with one-armed thieves. Sabria Jawhar: The Idiocy of the Anti-Sharia Crowd
To say that all Travellers are thieves would be the same as saying that all gorgios (non-Travellers) are murderers because a few of them have committed murder.
Frustrated detectives are turning their hunt for an expert gang of jewel thieves closer to home.
The thieves got scared and ran away.
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
She showed them, but the thieves were still unsatisfied and nearly strangled her to death.
A kindly Fagin who harbors a nest of adolescent thieves as runners for his goods.
Expensive golf equipment makes rich pickings for thieves, and the lucrative nature of golf crime was highlighted by a recent theft from the pro shop at the Golf Club.
The police set a trap for the thieves.
The thieves get away with the casket but not the jewels, which Lizzie has extracted for safe keeping.
Thieves had ransacked class seven, stealing exercise books belonging to Year Five children age 10.
Less than 90 minutes later, thieves smashed a window at Colchester Optical Centre in Red Lion Yard and snatched designer glasses from a display.
That deadly combination has let loose a wave of vengeance killings, tribal vendettas, mercenary kidnappings and thievery.
The thieves stole a purse containing banknotes.
This kind of thievery, vandalism, individual violence and destruction expresses, not the stress of combat, but an intense hatred directed against an entire people or race.
The tomb of Djehutynakht (je-hooty-knocked) and his wife, also named Djehutynakht, was thoroughly looted in antiquity, but artifacts the thieves left behind provide an extraordinary window on life in ancient Egypt. Exhibitions: Egypt's Model Afterlife
That journal is nothing but a bunch of copyright stealers, plagiarists and intellectual thieves.
Police are on the track of the thieves.
As the owner banged on the window, one of the thieves hot-wired the car, whilst the other made a rude gesture.
Thieves had stripped the house bare.
I hope the thieves are happy with their ill-gotten gains.
The thieves escaped with three Chinese Shar-Pei pups aged six weeks and a five month old American bulldog.
The thieves got away with a record haul of ￡25 million.
The perpetrators likely had ties to organized crime, according to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist," who says most art thieves are common crooks -- the class of criminal who would probably be flummoxed by Washington's high-profile museums, which are fortresslike and ringed by bollards. Heist-proof museums? U.S. buildings aided by design, location
Thieves are digging up corpses in order to steal jewellery and gold teeth.
The Union of the Crowns in 1603 largely brought about an end to such activities, though mosstroopers and horse thieves were still active in the borders throughout the seventeenth century.
Ruthless thieves are preying on the elderly outside charity and discount shops in Swindon.
Thieves snaffled all the goods from the burnt warehouse.
Using souped-up scanners and antennas, thieves station themselves near mobile phone callers.
JDL members hurled overt racist slurs, while Palestine House men threw pennies on the ground, calling the JDL "thieves. MISSISSAUGA - Home
If you added to it the adventures of the Famous Five as they tackled smugglers and pirates and thieves, and the magical escapades of brownies and elves, you get something close to Harry Potter.
The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.
But the six-month trip was cruelly cut short when thieves broke into a tour coach and stole all her possessions - forcing her to return home.
Big-hearted Evening Press readers have stepped in to supply new playthings for sick children - after thieves raided their toy cupboard.
Don't tempt thieves by leaving valuables clearly visible.
Their converts included even the ‘harlots and publicans and thieves’ addressed in one of the famous hymns by Wesley's brother Charles and prominent among the convict settlers of Australia.
I bought another safety lock as an additional insurance against thieves.
He tried to justify his thievery with excuses.
Gospel story of Bacchus, and to the statements that the Saviour was the son of a carpenter and was hung between two thieves, copied from the story of Christna, the Eighth, Avatar of the East Indian astrolatry. Astral Worship
The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house.
In the latest raid, thieves used his van to ram a police car.
What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared!
Residents in Barnoldswick are being urged to shop thieves to the police in a bid to crack down on sneak-in burglaries in the area.
Police say more people are becoming victims of carjackings because thieves cannot bypass sophisticated security systems on modern vehicles.
If gangs thieve from and threaten repeatedly a small number of traders, again you keep the gangs happy, and tell the traders to book it as an insurance claim. How “Police Performance” Fraud Works. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves picks up the story of Nathan Drake, a fortune hunter with a shady reputation and an even shadier past who is lured back into the treacherous world of thieves and mercenary treasure-seekers. Shambhala SunSpace » Rod Meade Sperry – From The Worst Horses Mouth
Some thieves do not even bother to melt down stolen silver for its scrap value.
The young man continued to hone his skills at thievery, and learned to use force when necessary as well.
Thieves made off with a microwave oven, ￡200 cash, a compact disc player, television and video recorder.
We were thieves that had stolen into the fold waiting to be discovered and expelled by a flaming sword.
A pioneering scheme to gate off alleys to burglars and thieves could be on its way to parts of central York.
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
I can't remember how our friendship got going, but before we knew it we were thick as thieves.
The thieves entered the premises after removing the padlocks with bolt cutters and a substantial number of potted shrubs and herbaceous plants were removed in broad daylight.
Even while playing games with his friends, he always took on the roles of a captain or police sergeant and made his pals become thieves and prisoners.
Police are still trying to find the thieves who ran off with his cage when they burgled her house in Oldham.
He does not want to publicise the fact that he carries large quantities of cash on his person in case he becomes a target for thieves.
Among the thieves' haul were four antique boxes, rare Meissen porcelain figures, vases and bowls, and two ormolu clocks, which had all been in Lord Chichester's family for generations.
Much of the looting was selective thievery of a quite small number of valuable pieces, with smashing and burning of furniture and furnishings carried out to simulate looter-like behaviour.
-- Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners, while we are not allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue. ' Waverley — Complete
People who break a rule of the immensely complex social security act, become cheats, thieves and bludgers.
Burckhardt, who suffered from them, gives a long account of their treachery and utter absence of that Arab “pundonor” which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Thieves in Bushenyi district are giving cattle waragi to make it easier to steal them.
My family has recently suffered the most inhuman treatment at the hands of a well-organized lawless body of tyrannical thieves under the leadership of a man going by the name of F. B. Yerrington, formerly of Carson City, Nevada. The Trouble With May Amelia
However, police are convinced those responsible were organised car thieves and not opportunists.
This was the moment two suspected car thieves received a rude awakening.
Identity thieves "phish" for personal information, like account numbers and PINs, which they use to sink your good credit (while sucking every penny out of your bank account). Click Fraud Threatens Web
Thieves raided an Italian villa that housed a number of valuable paintings.
Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran. Chronicles of the Canongate
In the first place, Slang is universal, whilst Cant is restricted in usage to certain classes of the community: thieves, vagrom men, and -- well, their associates. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
It's more than likely that the thieves don't know how much it is worth.
Apparently, this description is not an oversell, as Epicurious ranked Three Thieves Pinot Grigio as a Top 5 Box Wine, saying it "starts out as Granny Smith apple and green Jolly Rancher candy with hints of banana, giving way to papaya and crenshaw melon. MetaEfficient Reviews
But it'd do my heart good to help string up some of the dirty thieves before I passed out. CHAPTER V
Brand inspectors, who rooted out cattle thieves, tracked down stray steers, and kept the peace in the stockyards, had become the de facto law of the range by the time he joined their ranks in 1949.
Police figures show that as quickly as gardeners are filling their sheds with new lawnmowers and garden tools, thieves are emptying them and selling the goods on the black market.
Thieves had attempted to break through the front door of building before smashing a stained glass window.
Bank secrecy was born; even law enforcement on the track of thieves could not pierce it.
Some towns in Russia employ trolley police with powers to fine miscreants or issue persistent trolley thieves with life-bans from the store.
The thieves carved up the profit from the robbery.
Now police are deliberately ‘baiting’ cars in South Yorkshire in an attempt to catch the thieves red-handed.
There is no wealth like unto knowledge, for thieves cannot steal it.
‘I've been here about five or six months, and I haven't thieved since I've been in York,’ he says.
There are easy pickings for thieves at these big outdoor concerts.
Thieves made off with the canvas, known by the titles of "Poppy Flowers" and "Vase with Flowers, " on Saturday from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in the Egyptian capital.
Mankind being what it is, murderers, robbers, thieves, thugs, and con artists will always exist.
The police decision to reduce their burglary squad has been described as 'a thieves' charter'.
Nay doot ye'll thieve the winding claes from my corpse to make cloots for your snotty-nosed bairns, and where's my good brooch I said I wanted to be buried with? A Breath of Snow and Ashes
It continues to operate in the region today, even though cattle rustling and other forms of thievery rarely occur.
Martin the shepherd — and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, “the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!” The Monastery
Burglary and petty thievery, however, are common.
I prefer the term necrotic pustular basket of cowards, cheats, thieves, swindlers, con-artists, fuckwits lying bastards, child abusers and war criminals. WordPress.com News
Shop workers swap tills for the old Bill to stop thieves.
It was assumed by the courts that Tarot readings were false, and therefore a kind of thievery.
If men's wages fall below a certain limit, they become tramps, thieves, and robbers; but woman's wages _have no limit_, since she can always work for less than she can subsist upon, the _paths of shame being open to her_. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
A soldier later explained to patrons that one of the thieves had got away, and said no one was allowed to leave until a thorough sweep of the area had been done.
But immediately, turning to Tamara, she passionately and rapidly began saying something in an agreed jargon, which presented a wild mixture out of the Hebrew, Tzigani and Roumanian tongues and the cant words of thieves and horse-thieves. Yama: the pit
But Scrushy's incompetence went far beyond allowing a den of thieves to run amok in the finance department.
They resort to petty thievery to make a few extra bucks and, by chance, end up videotaping a mob hit that lands them in water over their heads.
Cruel doorstep cheats who prey on elderly people claim the number one spot on a damning ‘top five’ list of the worst swindlers, conmen and thieves.
While officers were covering the crime scene they discovered that the thieves had also raided the refrigerator for food.
Those kinds of places were only good to find felons and thieves.
The front door was rammed open, but the cash machine had been emptied earlier and the would-be thieves left empty-handed.
They had run to the edge of the world and back again, many enemies thus in pursuit, an uncountable number of thieves and competitors perpetually on the hunt.
A woman with multiple sclerosis has been left practically housebound after thieves stole her mobility scooter.
And the art of the steal - gun-toting thieves make off with a masterpiece while shocked museum - goers watched.
More info at website of the Brooklyn-based label that released the full-length version, temporaryresidence.com, and at Eluvium/Cooper’s site, eluvium.net, which houses two additional MP3s: the lush, if peculiarly detuned, “Under the Water It Glowed” and the deceptively rudimentary piano piece “Genius and the Thieves,” which sounds like Rufus Wainwright playing a Harold Budd cover. Disquiet » Three Eluvium MP3s
The thieves must have deliberately triggered the alarm and hidden inside the house.
Although the jewels were locked in a strongbox, the thieves stole them without any difficulty.
The ladder stood against the wall, making it easy for the thieves to enter the house.
We'll only have ourselves to blame when the thieves empty our accounts and max out our credit cards, basically.
All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
The thieves in your case have covered the hippocampus and regions of the cortex. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Don't leave wrapped packages or shopping bags on car seats where they can entice thieves.
The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other.
Thieves attacked a man on crutches in front of his teenage daughter, knocking him to the ground and riffling thorough his pockets in a Hanworth street last week.
She had even taken the precaution of chaining the baskets to brackets on the outside wall of her house, but the thieves still managed to take them.
A post office was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with £120 000.
Handbags, mobile phones on tables, coats on backs of chairs are all easy pickings for light-fingered thieves.
The film, which stars Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy as thieves targeting a Bernie Madoff-like embezzler, performed on the lower end of Universal's expectations, which the studio's President of Distribution Nikki Rocco attributed to the "general malaise" in the movie-going marketplace. 'Puss' Keeps Box-Office Lead
Moreover external seize and internal thieve pushed the monasteries' economy into crisis deeper.
The thieves had resprayed the truck and changed the license plates.
A terminally-ill teenager was left heartbroken when thieves ruined what could be her last Christmas.
Dishonesty, thievery, and peculation pervade the public sector.

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