How to Use filch in a Sentence

filch

verb

• He filched a pack of gum when no one was looking.
• On the weekends, when the bankers flee to the ’burbs, filching swigs of liquor on the Metra, the LaSalle Street canyon goes dark.
  — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 20 Dec. 2017
• That was good news because many of the home’s small treasures — vintage glass door knobs, wall sconces — hadn’t been filched or damaged.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Femme fatales have also been known to filch other fireflies that have become trapped in spider webs.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 July 2017
• Femme fatales have also been known to filch other fireflies that have become trapped in spider webs.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 3 July 2017
• The Coyotes, trying desperately to filch a wild-card spot in the West, cut their deficit to 3-2 with Jakob Chychrun’s goal only 26 seconds into the third.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2020
• Dean steals cars where the others are scarcely capable of filching a loaf of bread from an untended grocery.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
• The hackers also filched the firm’s source code and proprietary technology to manage users’ accounts and password changes.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2017
• That's increasing the incentive for thieves from California to New York who already were able to make good money selling filched oil.
  — Mario Parker and Leslie Patton, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• The most damaging breach was at the NSA, where Martin allegedly had filched virtually the entire library of hacking tools.
  — Ellen Nakashima, The Denver Post, 17 May 2017
• The cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.
  — Don Clark, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
• Some of the plotting also filches from another famous genre picture.
  — Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Such price sensitivity is reflected in what gets filched.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• As Torun’s nimble camera follows the cats doing their rounds—filching food, catching rats, scaring off interlopers—the film offers a glimpse of something richer and more poetic.
  — Vogue, 8 Aug. 2018
• Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Some employers, meanwhile, may be putting the most positive spin on job openings in a highly competitive environment in which the 3.6% unemployment rate – a 50-year low -- forces them to filch workers from each other.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• Every week, more stories surface of people who have been accused of stealing or sequestering vaccines, or faking their eligibility to filch a dose.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
• Warmbier was a curious college student on a tour of Pyongyang in January 2016 when he was arrested for allegedly filching a propaganda poster.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2019
• Malicious opportunists can attempt to steal users’ information from public access computers with keystroke loggers or other data filching viruses.
  — Leeza Garber, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024