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

Then they began filching stories from their real lives for the show.

From Slate • May 29, 2012

Thou hast a knave within thy house—Hodge, a servant of thine; They tell me that busy knave is such a filching one, That hen, pig, goose or capon, thy neighbour can have none.

From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of