Example sentences for: thieves

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

  • Baro or Barro ( baro cheat) was the boring option for christening thieves; more interesting choices included Mangiavacchi vacchi a plural of vacca cow), Mangiagalli ( gallo rooster), or Fumagalli ( fumare to smoke; de Felice says that such thieves would smoke the chickenkeeper out to get his charges).

  • Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.

  • In Henry IV , young Hal is a roustabout who keeps the company of a band of merry thieves led by the obese drunkard Falstaff, who has been described by critic Harold Bloom as the life force incarnate.

  • It seeks genuine direct elections after a period that is sufficient to organize alternative parties and prepare a campaign based on freedom of speech and other civil rights, the right to have free trade unions, the release of more than 200 political prisoners, debt relief, stronger penalties for corruption and pollution, no amnesty for Suharto and his fellow thieves, and a respite for the poor from the hardest edges of "economic reform."

  • But not wallowing in a moral swamp, like those cringing thieves at Time magazine.


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