Example Sentences

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It’s so packed with funny, strange, haunted sentences that other writers will be stealing lines from it for epigraphs, as if it were Ecclesiastes, for the next 150 years.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

It is such a great point, in fact, that I will be stealing it and claiming it as my own.

From New York Times • May 8, 2020

Before long, the league will be stealing offensive tackles from the NFL to set the high picks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2015

"Don't let him get out of your sight as long as he stays about the place; he will be stealing the horses if you don't watch him."

From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary

"Better get out a patent right away on the thing then, Lub," he was advised by the scoffing Ethan, "or some wise duck will be stealing the idea from you."

From Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge by Boone, Silas K.