How to Use thieve in a Sentence

thieve

verb

• Neo-Nazis and the KKK want to thieve my right to joy and grow fear in its place.
  — Brittany Packnett, SELF, 21 Aug. 2017
• Cain stole 26 bags a year ago, while Yelich thieved 16 of his own.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• They can be seen thieving food from the backs of pick-up trucks and bait from sport boats.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Pests, from bugs too tiny to see to thieving squirrels.
  — Susan Clotfelter, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
• Fleck is bullied by thieving poor kids and drunken rich guys, goaded to the point of murder by the meanness of the world.
  — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• Give the nesting plovers a wide berth and keep a close eye on thieving gulls hovering to snatch your roast beef from Kelly’s.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• For years, the party denigrated the south as a thieving leech on the resources of the more prosperous north.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2020
• But many African states have not helped their cause, often because thieving politicians are still in charge.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• The raven thieving groceries from the back of your truck or the call of migrating swans high overhead all serve to bring our feathered neighbors to notice.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
• This later-season standout stars Cleese as a bumbling, flower-thieving highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Taught young by her grandmother to thieve and pilfer, Ivy’s punishment when caught by her mother is to be sent back to China.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2020
• All this carries a whiff of the Somozas, the brutal, thieving dictators whom the Sandinistas overthrew in 1979.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• What motivated him to go joy riding and car thieving at midnight miles from home?
  — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Cattle raiding and horse thieving were common crimes in the Wild West, but bee rustling is a relatively new offense for the lawbooks.
  — Lucas Foglia, National Geographic, 3 May 2019
• Rats today are widely seen as filthy, thieving vectors of deadly diseases like plague and hantavirus.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Last year, a farmer in Thirthahalli in the state of Karnataka resorted to painting his pet dog with tiger stripes to protect his coffee crop from thieving monkeys.
  — Fox News, 30 Jan. 2020
• The man Stockton police want for stealing parking meters chills out near a possible object of thieving desires.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 16 May 2017
• Her dramas are sites of living history, too, where personal stories of racism’s unhealed wounds mingle with dark tales thieved from the Brothers Grimm and 1940s Hollywood.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• Kern survives in the impoverished, urban environment of a favela by thieving, wielding knives, competing in martial arts and being on the run.
  — Lou Fancher, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2017
• Now, an enterprising (and thieving) hacking operation is trying to extract some of that cash.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Jennifer Lopez’s mesmerizing pole dance in the first few minutes of the hit movie Hustlers does as much to solidify her character — Ramona, the ringleader of a band of thieving strippers — as her dialogue.
  — Clarissa Cruz, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• On the way, Castner and Co. are tormented by gumball-sized flesh-eating flies, deadly lightning storms, oceanic waves, ceaseless rain, prowling bears, thieving locals, Hyundai-sized rapids, and countless near-disasters.
  — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• Eventually, Ivy begins to thieve from box stores on her own – coveting items her family won't provide for her such as tampons, disposable razors, Valentine's Day cards, lip gloss and even a diary.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
• Hold One’s Peace: Prudie counsels a letter writer whose sister seems intent on marrying her lying, unfaithful, thieving fiancé.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• Syrians generally viewed thieving civil servants as an inevitable part of life.
  — John Wendle, Scientific American, 17 Dec. 2015
• The first episode of this nature mini-series focuses on animals who will steal, cheat and fight for food, including kleptomaniac crabs, thieving macaques and cannibalistic lizards.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• After all, Asher Potts was not just a name and Social Security number making credit card purchases or otherwise identity-thieving around.
  — Daniel Riley, GQ, 1 May 2018
• The local partners eventually rebelled, denouncing the Zetas as thieving outsiders while also adopting their predatory tactics.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2019
• His slickly produced videos speak to Russians’ anger about inequality and hypocritical, thieving officialdom.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024