Sample Sentences for
pilfer
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    She sat on her living room couch, dressed in her rattiest C&C T-shirt and a pair of Calvin Klein boxer briefs she'd pilfered out of Sean's top drawer.  (source)
    pilfered = stolen (taken without asking)
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    How many solar cells will I have to pilfer from the flab's farm?†  (source)
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    I was trying to think of a way to inconspicuously pilfer the picture he drew of me, which was little more than a balloon-shaped head and some brown waves of hair coming off it.†  (source)
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    This time he was wearing a thick white robe a friend of his had pilfered from a Los Angeles hotel.†  (source)
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    This is justifiable pilfering.†  (source)
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    She hasn't bothered to crack it yet, mainly because it seems like homework for a job that's already punishment, but also because she's rereading Jane Eyre for English class (ironically, the teacher, Mrs. Tate, handed out school-issued copies the week after Molly tried to pilfer it) and that book is huge.†  (source)
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    He had also prosecuted several fellows for pilferage.†  (source)
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    In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence.†  (source)
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    In the years since Welty's death, Hobart and Blackwell had evidently acquired a reputation as an easy mark for thieves; and the thrill of pouncing on these well-dressed filchers and pilferers and extorting large sums from them was almost like shoplifting in reverse.†  (source)
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    In other days Pork's pilferings would have been a serious matter, probably calling for a whipping.†  (source)
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    Or perhaps Mundungus, who had pilfered plenty from this house both before and after Sirius died?†  (source)
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    Between meals, if his mother did not stand guard, he was constantly pilfering at the wretched store of food on the shelf.†  (source)
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    This follows from the fact that if the BTDUs (rolls) are stationed, while inactive, outside of the purview of the controlling office (i.e., the office that has collectively purchased the BTDU)-that is, if the BTDUs are stored, for example, in a lobby area or within the facility in which they are actually utilized, they will be subject to pilferage and "shrinkage" as unauthorized persons consume them, either as part of a conscious effort to pilfer or out of an honest misunderstanding, i.e., a belief that the BTDUs are being provided free of charge by the operating agency (in this case the United States Government), or as the result of necessity, as in the case of a beverage spill that is encr†  (source)
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