How to Use theft in a Sentence

theft

noun

• He was found guilty of theft.
• The theft of the jewelry and other valuables was immediately reported to the police.
• The risks of theft and raids from the DEA were constant.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• The assets were worth about $540 million on the date of the theft.
  — Dustin Volz, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• There were only 148 such thefts in the same months last year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• The concept of wage theft is a little had for some to wrap their heads around.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• In many cases, the items are locked away to prevent theft.
  — Sarah Nassauer, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• The value of the items stolen in the burglaries and thefts is unknown.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 30 June 2024
• The sheriff office's auto theft unit was looped in to look for the Equinox.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2024
• An employee was in the restroom at the time of the theft, which took less than a minute, the lieutenant said.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
• Cooper was charged with theft alongside the adult and sent to the Dozier school rather than prison.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
• That theft occurred prior to the theft at the Holiday Inn.
  — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• The key to the story is, in fact, the theft and deception of art, of the making of culture itself.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• But the theft, and others like it, only push her to keep working.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2022
• His son, Grant Bell, pleaded guilty to theft and will be sentenced next on Sept. 9.
  — Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024
• One of the driving factors: a thirty-five-per-cent jump in firearm theft.
  — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2022
• Partly thanks to that move, theft will stay flat this year, TJX predicts.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
• Arrested for theft were a Cleveland man, 19, and a Maple Heights man, 18.
  — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• The 20-year-old was fired and is now charged with theft, officials told McClatchy News.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 2 May 2024
• Plus, the theft came months after someone had stolen her wallet out of her car.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2022
• But the theft of the jade stone turns out to be part of a larger mystery tied to Chinese mythology.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024
• Police added the driver was wearing the same Amazon vest, hat and mask that were in the theft recordings.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2024
• Rising theft—and stores’ measures to prevent it—could dull that edge.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
• Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara is in talks to plead guilty to the theft of the baseball star’s money.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
• The sheriff took him into custody on a theft of an airplane charge.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
• Both men have been charged with colluding in theft and murder, the outlet added.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a mass scale.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The caller wanted the incident on record because there have been thefts from the property in the past.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 22 July 2023
• According to a press release, police were alerted to the theft around 11 a.m.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2024
• Thao faced criticism over a significant rise in robberies in the city, poor relations with the police union and missing a deadline for a grant that would have given Oakland millions to address retail theft.
  — Jared Gans, The Hill, 26 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025