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How to use filch in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb, noun

Filch means to illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal. Example: “Hey, someone filched my wallet!”

Examples of filch by meaning

verbTo illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

  • Hey, someone filched my wallet!
  • The farm drivers were often found to be filching from the cars for spare parts or moonlighting with trucks for personal gain.2015, Cynthia J. Buckley, “Back to the Collective: Production and Consumption on a Siberian Collective Farm”, in Stephen Kotkin, David...

nounA hooked stick used to filch objects.

  • And for that reason is the staff called a filch.1930, Thomas Dekker [?], “O Per Se O (1612)”, in A[rthur] V[alentine] Judges, editor, The Elizabethan Underworld: A Collection of Tudor and...

More sentences with filch

  • The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two.2018, Gerry Woodhouse, Lord Damnus: Conqueror of the World. From the entry shekel
  • His crime is not that he filches money from the safe but that he betrays a trust.1980, David Mark Chalmers, The Muchrake Years, Krieger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 152. From the entry grafter
  • Anyhow, they go to the clink, that's what happens to people who filch city property.1972, Carolyn Lane, Child of Air: A One Act Play, Denver, Colo.: Pioneer Drama Service, →OCLC, page 13. From the entry whatchamacallit
  • He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead.2008 June 7, Jon Pareles, “He Still Loves New Orleans, and Now He’s Mad”, in New York Times. From the entry bujo
  • The floors were paved with mellow red tiles filched from an old farmhouse and the ceilings were beamed with jarrahwood.1989, Désirée Picton-Seymour, Historical buildings in South Africa. From the entry jarrahwood
  • In the upper northwestern edge of the region, bordered by the Mekong River, the people rely on the local seafood filched from the water.2024, Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet Thailand’s Islands & Beaches, Lonely Planet, →ISBN. From the entry soldier river barb
  • But who could see, after dark, if he chewed pemmican filched from a parfleche of the Quiet One or crept down to drink from a spring?1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 39. From the entry parfleche

Meaning of filch

  1. verb To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
  2. noun Something which has been filched or stolen.
  3. noun An act of filching; larceny, theft.

Full definition of filch

Questions about filch in a sentence

How do you use filch in a sentence?
Filch is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Hey, someone filched my wallet!”
What is a short sentence with filch?
“Hey, someone filched my wallet!”
What does filch mean?
Filch means to illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

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