Example sentences for: thievery

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

  • Teachers kept problem children in line with corporal punishments that seem positively barbaric today: They tied children to whipping posts and beat them or branded students for their crimes--a "T" for thievery, a "B" for blasphemy.

  • The thief will accuse everyone of thievery."

  • He was arrested four times for thievery, usually from tourists, but was neither jailed nor deported.

  • In sum, what you witnessed was petty thievery, not someone poisoning the city water supply, and no person was being harmed.


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