Example sentences for: thief

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

  • Therefore, you're the real jewel thief!

  • The latest from avant-garde British director Peter Greenaway ( The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ) elicits a familiar critique: It's judged a visual knockout but pretentious as hell.

  • Of how, when tea was done, and everyone had stood,He reached for my head, put his hands over it,And gently pulled me to his chest, which smelledOf dung smoke and cinnamon and mutton grease.I could hear his wheezy breathing now, like the prophet's Last whispered word repeated by the faithful.Then he prayed for what no one had time to translate--His son interrupted the old man to tell him a groupOf snake charmers sought his blessing, and a blind thief.The saint pushed me away, took one long look,Then straightened my collar and nodded me toward the door.

  • The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), an enjoyable piece of romantic fluff in which worldly millionaire thief Steve McQueen matched wits with brittle insurance investigator Faye Dunaway.

  • (Of course, he is also a killer and a thief, two facts about himself he hasn't quite dealt with yet.)


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