Example Sentences

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The thief will have stolen not only your past and present but also a reliable guide to your future.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Russia can negotiate formal treaties with its autonomous republics in a month, as planned, Yeltsin will have stolen another march on Gorbachev.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is stupid enough, yet, lay anything aside, and in a trice he will have stolen it.

From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.

“Perhaps,” said the captain, “but it will be only a short war, and at the end of it the United States will have stolen Texas.”

From Ahead of the Army by Emerson, C. Chase

By the end of winter they will have stolen everything in Rome that can be stolen.

From The Saracen: The Holy War by Shea, Robert