Example Sentences

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"But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2018

In his ruling, he quoted “Othello”: “He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

I sidle over to spoon my husband’s cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup with lemon verbena and shellfish; he filches confit.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015

Gunn not only filches from the trove, he graciously acknowledges the theft.

From Time • Aug. 1, 2014

Neoptolemus, at the instance of Ulysses, filches from Philoctetes the bow and arrows, but being overcome by his nobler nature restores them.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin