thievery

How To Use thievery In A Sentence

• As one sergeant noted, ‘he was man repeatedly punished for acts of petty thievery and drunkenness.’
• Mikhail: Don't try to justify your thievery with excuses!
• If people like him are shunned and embarrassed over this kind of legalized thievery often enough, maybe we can put an end to it and redirect some of that money back to shareholders, to whom it properly belongs in the first place.
• Between food-thievery, vehicle hot-wiring and gas-siphoning, Cowen jokes that he has learned a new set of skills.
• As you well know, thievery is a crime punishable by a long time in prison.
• References to two Aussie 1980s hardish rock bands, flanelette and thievery - it could almost be Broadmeadows. Midnight Oil: How Can We Sleep When Our Beds Are Burning?
• So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach, and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other _objets d'art, _ pieces of jewelry, and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: The more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does). Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• Residents of the city of Zamora, twice witnessed a spectacle in which men who had obviously been flagellated and otherwise tortured were paraded around one of the main glorietas bearing signs that they were being made an example by the La Familia who accused them of thievery and other crimes. Even the criminals won't file denuncias
• It's a question that bedevils news managers, as journalists continue to work in danger zones where hostile fire, kidnapping, thievery, and muggings are part of a day's work.
• But that's what is so refreshing about their approach - they have somehow cracked the secret formula of winning pop, and if that involves a little thievery from their idols, so be it.