Example sentences for: stolen

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

  • Just say you were a dentist seeking a stolen hour of bliss; where would you go?

  • In the English-speaking dictionary microcosm The Oxford Thesaurus (1991), has clearly stolen a march over all its rivals in terms of size, structure, and depth of treatment.

  • In this obscure pantheon, a place must be reserved for Klaus Kinski, the erratically gifted Polish-German actor and noted mal vivant , who tried to publish the English version of his autobiography in 1988 under the massively ironic title All I Need is Love . The book was caught in a copyright dispute between Random House and a West German publisher, with huge libel problems looming; it was withdrawn shortly after publication, and became one of the books most often stolen from public libraries.

  • Just as an example: I almost wish I didn't know that the inscription Emma Bovary put on the walking stick she gave to her lover, Rodolphe, was stolen verbatim from a gift that Gustave Flaubert got himself, from his lover Louise Colet.

  • The legend states that he shared his stolen goods with the poor Mexicans of the Salinas Valley.


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