Example sentences for: stealing

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

  • A congressional report accused China of nuclear espionage . The gist: China filched the designs for all seven nuclear warheads currently in the U.S. arsenal; has used the designs to update its weapons; and has been stealing secrets from American labs for more than 20 years.

  • The best thing about this play, apparently, is Irish actor Donal McCann ( The Dead , Stealing Beauty ). McCann plays a 70-year-old ex-superintendent of the British-run Dublin police force who is now committed to an insane asylum and brooding over his past.

  • Police charged Francisco Dandraia and Frank Salinas with criminal possession of marijuana and stealing electricity.

  • Joaquín Murrieta, whose name is also spelled Murieta and Murietta, roamed the back roads and hills of northern and southern California from Mount Shasta to the Mexican border in the mid-1850s, stealing horses and robbing Yankees and Chinese alike.

  • Look Who's Talking screenwriter/director Amy Heckerling was accused of stealing whole passages of dialogue from a screenplay shown to her three years before her film's release.


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