purloining

Example Sentences

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With regard to a Hemingway purloining on “Love and Theft”: “Dylan implants only part of the original sentence, while presumably expecting us to cough up the whole.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

“You know, they say that Atlanta influences everything,” Williams told the crowd, purloining a phrase often used to describe Atlanta’s paramount place in African American and broader American culture.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2022

At one British university, students were purloining towels from their dispensers, so Sofidel provided dispensers with locks.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2019

One of the rare politicians who paid a price for purloining was Joe Biden, whom I profiled in the magazine last week.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2014

He repented of his foul deed, and his base purloining of the restaurateur’s plate.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various