Example Sentences

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Since 2017, North Korea has pilfered an enormous amount of currency through fraud schemes and by hacking into virtual currency accounts.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

He has pilfered electric wire from a factory in Alchevsk to repair electric lines.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2014

He yearns to go off to London and become a scriptwriter before Mr. Shad-rack closes in on him about the postage money he has pilfered.

From Time Magazine Archive

And you have had nothing, for he has pilfered you of life, giving only dreams in exchange, my poor Antoine, and he has led you at the last to infamy.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

The youngster has pilfered my pin, As I pledged the gay dame in the beaker; And now must we brawl for a brooch Like boys when they wrangle and tussle.

From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)