Example Sentences

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To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2021

But there was no evidence that the fragment with writings from Mark had been filched.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021

To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years.

From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2019

When not kitted out in her Captain Marvel suit—much less revealing than Gadot’s Wonder Woman getup—she spends much of the film in a baggy Nine Inch Nails T-shirt filched from a store mannequin.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2019

She produces evidence: a sanitary pad, filched from Perdie’s wastebasket.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood