pickpocket

Example Sentences

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A delivery driver by day, he started filming pickpocket moments after saying he witnessed them almost daily, before posting them online.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

His initial meeting with Grace, a pickpocket he picks up because she may hold a key to the keys, is flat, rather than charming.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

She passes like a ponytailed Pistol Pete Maravich and she has the sticky fingers of a subway pickpocket.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023

In a column, The Chicago Tribune’s film critic, Michael Phillips, called Sightline “a bush-league pickpocket move” and “the latest tiny nail getting tap-tap-tapped into the coffin currently under construction for an entire era of filmgoing.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023

And if not, then could Harry’s death have been more than just an awful coincidence, the result of a foolish choice to pickpocket the wrong man?

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros