embezzles
- present tense form of embezzle (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But if a mom and pop own a dry cleaner and someone embezzles or steals $175,000 from them and they don’t get their money back, they’re done.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 21, 2017
One of the objectors embezzles money and excitement surges to the rescue.
From Time Magazine Archive
You say the mouth embezzles all, The fruit of your exertion; But I on this assembly call To prove the base assertion.
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Park, Marmaduke
Men do not perpetrate crimes for the sake of light o' loves like Musette, unless, indeed, some wretched youth embezzles money to buy jewellery for his divinity.
From The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Hume, Fergus
