purse snatcher
Example Sentences
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There is something quaintly Victorian about many of the crimes that the London unit has investigated: the artful pickpocket, the roving purse snatcher.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2016
The issue begins with Catwoman’s inner-monologue, mourning the death of a common purse snatcher.
From Forbes ● May 7, 2013
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Police say a 59-year-old woman chased down a purse snatcher who was fleeing on a bicycle in Longview, Wash., pulled him to the ground and grabbed back her purse.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2011
Yet, going on half a year later, he is still out and about, enjoying a freedom that is routinely denied your run-of-the-mill purse snatcher.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2011
Not long ago, Gertrude Booker, 75, wrestled a husky teen-age purse snatcher to the ground before she decided that her pocketbook, which contained only bus fare, really was not worth fighting for.
From Time Magazine Archive
