Example Sentences

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“I always feel like a criminal,” said Street, who admits that he still feels like he is pilfering a drink he already paid for.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2018

He is pilfering kids and spiriting them to Neverland, where they toil in mines, chipping away for pixum—a glowing fairy treasure, which Blackbeard smokes, through a creepy mask, in a bid for rejuvenation.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015