Example sentences for: stealing

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

  • He does admit stealing valuable proofs of stamps belonging to the crown when he worked at the British Museum but notes that this was a long time ago.

  • -- Elizabeth Dole, craftily stealing rhetoric from rival candidate Dan Quayle.

  • Aramony, jailed for fraud and embezzlement after years of stealing from the charity, had a "top hat " pension plan, a grotesquely lavish package of benefits far richer than those offered to ordinary workers.

  • Just before the great battle with the French at Agincourt, Henry V is told that Bardolph, a member of his old gang, has been caught stealing a small statue of Christ from a local church.

  • The Wall Street Journal "Work Week" column reports that in a survey of restaurant workers at 11 national chains, respondents admitted stealing an average of $218 in food and property, compared with $96 the previous year.


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