pickpocket

Example Sentences

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His quick reflexes and deft glovework earned him the nickname "pickpocket" from former Indian coach Ravi Shastri.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025

His initial meeting with Grace, a pickpocket he picks up because she may hold a key to the keys, is flat, rather than charming.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

In a column, The Chicago Tribune’s film critic, Michael Phillips, called Sightline “a bush-league pickpocket move” and “the latest tiny nail getting tap-tap-tapped into the coffin currently under construction for an entire era of filmgoing.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023

There was a time in Mexico that he and Joice were targeted by a pickpocket, who was apprehended trying to run out of a hotel.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2022

It was like a punch to the gut, knowing that a girl born there could end up a common pickpocket in the slums of the Levee.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros