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Example sentences for: steals

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But a story as piercing as this goes to the heart of the matter, for it embodies the terrible event in such a way that it steals up on us and will haunt us in our sleep.
A big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this first feature produced by five film-school graduates from Florida steals some of Kubrick's opening-weekend thunder.
So he heads back into the bar, steals a fifth of Wild Turkey, then ambles past the railroad tracks and peeps into a van where a young woman (Liv Tyler) has been undressing.
The film's conceit (always a good word to use around Eszterhas) is that a director steals his own terrible movie to prevent its release.
2) It's the first decent movie of the summer not aimed at teens, a "highly pleasurable popcorn movie for adults" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). 3) Its extravagance is fun (the story centers on a billionaire who steals art for kicks).