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How to use thieve in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb

Thieve means to commit theft. Example: “He could get sent to jail for breaking in like a thieving fidlam ben.”

More sentences with thieve

  • He could get sent to jail for breaking in like a thieving fidlam ben.2023 December 4, Bree Wolf, Sydney Jane Baily, Tracy Sumner, Charlie Lane, Fenna Edgewood, Jennifer Monroe, Meredith Bond, Naughty or…. From the entry fidlam ben
  • He knew a rhyme about Rio, its thieving cariocas who wore sparkling wedding dresses.2011, Robert Minhinnick, The Keys of Babylon, →ISBN. From the entry carioca
  • Mama Shirley was at the foot of the stairs hollering “Halt, you nasty, thieving Boogen!”1997, Shirley Beamer, A Face in the Window, Morris Publishing, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry boogen
  • "From thieving Arabs to Jewish grubbery, it had to be the daughter of a wheel merchant."1994, André Aciman, Out of Egypt: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, pages 75–76. From the entry grubbery
  • For several months he made a hand-to-mouth living from such petty thieving and black marketeering as was possible.2013, Richard Flanagan, chapter 2, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Chatto & Windus, published 2014. From the entry black marketeering
  • I won’t let those thieving, murdering leeches who call themselves our kin get their slimey hands on you.1996, Hannah Howell, “Wild Roses”, in Unconquered, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 342. From the entry slimey
  • Thieving hands clenched inside pedal-pusher pockets, I heard with sinking heart how in ice cold water they washed their own clothes.1989, Patricia Young, “Holiday in Scotland”, in The Mad and Beautiful Mothers, Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Ragweed Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry pedal-pusher
  • Finished with the thieving lay now and forever.1975, H. R. F. Keating, A Remarkable Case of Burglary. From the entry lay
  • He put her on the game (had her taught thieving).1928, M.C. Sharpe, Chicago May, page 33. From the entry on the game
  • But Kezia thieved out at the back.1922 Katherine Mansfield, The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354-355). From the entry thieve out
  • Now we have him knighted, by a rascal who, tiring of thieving a livelihood by the road-side, assures it by cleaning out his guests; and by two revirginated strumpets.1927, Miguel de Unamuno, The life of Don Quixote and Sancho according to Miguel de Cervantes. From the entry revirginated

Meaning of thieve

  1. verb To commit theft.

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Questions about thieve in a sentence

How do you use thieve in a sentence?
Thieve is used as a verb. For example: “He could get sent to jail for breaking in like a thieving fidlam ben.”
What is a short sentence with thieve?
“But Kezia thieved out at the back.”
What does thieve mean?
Thieve means to commit theft.

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