filch
verb (used with object)
to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer.
was filching
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past progressiveof filch.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The Tribune reported that Taylor was filching every form of public assistance imaginable: Social Security, food stamps, Medicaid, and Aid to Families With Dependent Children.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2017
The reported that Taylor was filching every form of public assistance imaginable: social security, food stamps, Medicaid, and Aid to Families With Dependent Children.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2013
All this struck Cyanamid as highly suspicious, but the detectives found no concrete evidence that Fox was filching drug formulas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then how deliberately he measured again with his long arms, with all the appearance of justice, whilst he was filching off inches at once!
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
He had to lock everything up, and even as it was, never turned his back but she was filching and pilfering.
From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by W.H.D. Rouse
