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How to use mitch in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb

Mitch means to pilfer; filch; steal. Example: “John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.”

Examples of mitch by meaning

verbTo be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.

  • John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
  • Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert.1996, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, "Old Grey Whistle Theft" (Father Ted TV episode)

More sentences with mitch

  • Mitch would find the rat—or ratette—and move on without anyone knowing.2015, Angi Morgan, The Ranger, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry ratette
  • Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump contemptuously brushed aside Schumer’s opposition to both appointments, and didn’t suffer for it politically.2020 March 6, Garrett Epps, “Chuck Schumer Needs to Watch Himself”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2020. From the entry contemptuously
  • Mitch had smoothly removed her shortlets and panties.2010, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood: A Mitch Milligan Murder Mystery. From the entry mooseknuckle
  • Mitch (Precious Pearl) is a smooth, impassive young man utterly dripping with the ambivalent sensuality of a teddy-boy in tap shoes.1991 April 6, Ron Caldwell, “Kind of Stranger”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry teddy boy
  • Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto.1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104. From the entry sotto
  • Mitch wadded the note, and tossed it over the cliff.1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 10, column 1. From the entry wad
  • Mitch slobbed down on to the sofa and plonked a foot on the table, his ankle right next to the offending device.2008, Nick Oldham, Crunch Time, →ISBN. From the entry slob
  • “Mitch knows he can’t take Trump off the table there,” Scott Reed, a longtime G.O.P. strategist, said of the calculations of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader.2020 November 18, Richard Fausset, Jonathan Martin, “In Georgia, a Republican Feud With Trump at the Center”, in The New York Times…. From the entry maga
  • Mitch wakes up in his eighth floor hotel suite with a surfside view of the ocean to Margo shaking his shoulder and saying, “Poppy, Larry is dead.”2010, Colby Chase, A Place for Me: International Street Life to Spiritual Insight, page 179. From the entry surfside
  • Mitch had stood up first, he had spoken out loudly, directly, vigorously and angrily, he had put his own reputation, and his very considerable personal fortune, on the line.2004, Kate Burns, Fighters against Censorship (History Makers), San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry adhocrat

Meaning of mitch

  1. verb To pilfer; filch; steal.
  2. verb To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
  3. verb To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.

Full definition of mitch

Questions about mitch in a sentence

How do you use mitch in a sentence?
Mitch is used as a verb. For example: “John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.”
What is a short sentence with mitch?
“Mitch had smoothly removed her shortlets and panties.”
What does mitch mean?
Mitch means to pilfer; filch; steal.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mitch (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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