Example sentences for: pilfered

How can you use “pilfered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pilfered Daily News (Milford, Mass., Daily News, which may no longer deserve its reputation for copying stories from other papers).

  • In their place is a lot of sub- Raiders of the Lost Ark swashbuckling, plus sight gags pilfered from Sam Raimi's 1993 Army of Darkness (the last of his The Evil Dead trilogy) and genre-deflating banter that's like an untalented sophomore's stab at Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

  • "Sponsor girls" trade sex for pilfered designer clothing.

  • Newsweek reveals that President Clinton has approved a CIA plan to destabilize Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic: Kosovar rebels will be trained to commit acts of sabotage such as cutting telephone wires, ruining gas reserves, and launching cyberattacks against secret bank accounts where Milosevic has stowed millions of dollars, presumably pilfered from his people.


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