Example Sentences

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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

Sasha, the young woman with whom “A Visit From the Goon Squad” begins, has a compulsion to steal, and the array of objects she has filched looks “like the work of a miniaturist beaver.”

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2010

He leads the team with a .323 batting average, and has filched more than 60 bases to boot.

From Time Magazine Archive

This master of the art of persuasive perseverance, with his oilcloth bag hidden under the frock of his coat, has filched many a hard-earned dollar from the farmer.

From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton

But the cloak, which Boreas could not tear away from the traveller's resistance, oftentimes the too genial Phœbus has filched from his amiable spirit of compliance.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)