Example sentences for: theft

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

  • Using a helicopter equipped with a heat-seeking device, Suffolk County cops located two cinderblock warehouses in Holbrook, Long Island, and arrested two men for theft of electricity.

  • Consider the different ways that people self-protect against car theft.

  • The report actually documents the theft of only one warhead's technology.

  • The congressional report, prompted by a NYT story last spring describing the unsupervised flow of sensitive satellite technology to China's strategic rocket programs, confirmed that transfer, but, say the papers, went much further, also uncovering the theft by the Chinese of nuclear weapons design technology from American labs and examining the too-loose export controls governing advanced computers.

  • The Law impressed a special meaning on many Anglo-Saxon words-- manslaughter, sheriff, theft, hearsay, bench (judge's), strike (motion to), landlord, freehold (in land), and herein --which they retain to this day.


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