Example sentences for: stole

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

  • On a dark night in mid-August 1775, several boats sailed into the dark harbor of Tobacco Bay near Fort St. Catherine and, in a daring and dangerous raid, stole 100 kegs of gunpowder from the main ordnance store.

  • A tour through the cave includes a brief ride on an underground river in a boat (which would-be emigrants once stole for an unsuccessful escape attempt to Florida).

  • The Washington Post concludes that Woods is finally fulfilling the hype that surrounded his 1997 Masters victory, but the Associated Press reports that García stole the show . Commentators salivated at the prospect of a rivalry between the two youngsters.

  • During most of that time, women's feet "like little mice stole in and out" (as Sir John Suckling put it in 1641) from under the hems of floor-length skirts.

  • In Who Stole the News (1995), veteran AP correspondent Mort Rosenblum recycled the standard yuck that USA Today "is for people who find television too difficult."


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