Example Sentences

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On that day, a brilliant and fetching book clerk named Maggie McClure caught his attention; Bradbury caught hers because she thought he was shoplifting books into his vast trench coat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

She confronted a man she says was shoplifting.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022

Not when we were contacting somebody who was shoplifting.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2021

When a Charleston, S.C., patrol officer stopped a young mother outside Walmart after store officials reported that she was shoplifting groceries, her first thought was of her children.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2016

To meet this deplorable condition of things there were forty-eight different offences punishable by death: among them was shoplifting above five shillings: stealing linen from a bleaching ground: cutting hop bines and sending threatening letters.

From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir