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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    Without a lake nearby, and no cabins to pilfer, fishing and burglary weren't options.†  (source)
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    How many solar cells will I have to pilfer from the flab's farm?†  (source)
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    All cash and coins had been pilfered.†  (source)
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    This is justifiable pilfering.†  (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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    He had also prosecuted several fellows for pilferage.†  (source)
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    He had never, he raged, however stumbling he might have been, expected to find himself a little pilferer of love, a peeping, creeping area-sneak, and not even successful in his sneaking, less successful than the soda-clerks who swanked nightly with the virgins under the maples.†  (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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    Filled the hog trough and walked through the pickers' cabins to see that they hadn't relieved themselves in pilfered canning jars.†  (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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    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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