THIEF in a Sentence
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75 example sentences for THIEF, such as:
1. Set a thief to catch a thief.
2. The thief bore away my watch.
3. The thief robbed me of my watch.
4. The thief was nobbled in the act.
5. It takes a thief to catch a thief.
2. The thief bore away my watch.
3. The thief robbed me of my watch.
4. The thief was nobbled in the act.
5. It takes a thief to catch a thief.
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Meanings and Examples of THIEF
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thief
n. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 The thief had flung away the loaf, but his arm was still bleeding.
2 Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
3 This orthography might have confounded the pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of a descent from the wicked thief.
4 He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief.
5 A thief is admitted there, provided he be a god.
6 She shared her lodgings, which were furnished in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English thief.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
7 Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare.
8 Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.
9 The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, whoever passes by; le pantre.
10 In the midst of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades.
11 Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
12 This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that deposit.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
13 Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
14 A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought about.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
15 Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, but he is a thief.
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 The thief was nobbled in the act.
2 In scandal, as in robbery,the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
3 The policeman seized the thief by the arm.
4 The thief stabbed me in the arm with a knife as he seized my bag.
5 The receiver is as bad as the thief.
6 A true man and a thief think not the same.
7 The alarm is usually sufficient to deter a would-be thief.
8 The thief robbed me of my watch.
9 The thief bore away my watch.
10 A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.
11 Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself.
12 Set a thief to catch a thief.
13 It takes a thief to catch a thief.
14 The thief whipped round the corner and escaped.
15 The thief slunk down the dark alley.