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 cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2018

“I am forever grateful to them,” says Georgette Ioup of the immigrants who renovated her home in the Gentilly neighbourhood—though the police, and unscrupulous contractors who sometimes filch workers’ wages, have been less hospitable.

From Economist • Aug. 20, 2015

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

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein