filching

Example Sentences

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Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News • Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020

Luhnow offered this lament even as the Astros were filching pitching signs like itchy-fingered bank robbers.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2020

The reported that Taylor was filching every form of public assistance imaginable: social security, food stamps, Medicaid, and Aid to Families With Dependent Children.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2013

Again, he enlarged his Empire, at the cost of China, by filching territories as extensive as some of the greatest European countries.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various