Example Sentences
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Pilfering puss Theo became known for thieving Christmas decorations and toys in Ipswich, which owner Rachael Drouet would then try to return.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2019
The Metro also has a playful headline, saying: "Pilfering plod is driving one nuts."
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2013
Pilfering not only did not increase, but the clerks sold more because they knew exactly what was in stock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pilfering meanly from life, he had failed to perceive and accept its rich free gift.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pilfering, varied with a rude sort of magic, and the swindling arts of divination and chiromancy for the special behoof of credulous servant-girls, are the stock-in-trade of the modern Zingaris.
From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George
