Example sentences for: steals

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

  • (In Michael Collins , Collins steals his best friend's girlfriend when the friend goes to America to raise money.)

  • Second, you might consume resources to which you have no clear property right--for example, you might open a factory that pollutes the air I breathe, or you might become a burglar who steals my stereo system.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."


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