pickpocket

Example Sentences

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When the time came, it was the “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” starring John Turturro as a sleight-of-hand artist struggling to stay solvent when fewer marks carry cash.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

Google/Android is the World’s Biggest Pickpocket Consider the overwhelming evidence from those that deal with Google.

From Forbes • Dec. 9, 2011

Pickpocket incidents in the year up to November 1 were up to 3,020 this year from 2,509 in the same period of 2010.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2011

Last week, at 82, Pickpocket Tamotsu was back in the streets of Tokyo, presumably still plying his trade, but his old adversary was no longer on his track.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whitey had a good claimer named Pickpocket that caught Johnson’s eye; Whitey was equally enamored of Woolf’s riding.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand