filch

Example Sentences

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The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2020

The 14-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges Xiaoqing Zheng of Niskayuna, N.Y., and Zhaoxi Zhang of China’s Liaoning province teamed up to filch millions of dollars’ worth of General Electric’s aviation trade secrets.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2019

Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology.

From Economist • Jul. 5, 2018

He’d head up to Connecticut and filch Fred in the middle of the night.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein