purloin

Example Sentences

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That's why he has to purloin someone else's work in order to finish off his novel.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023

It is the first to show some T cells purloin a protein called CD20 from the surface of B cells, he adds.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2022

A series of turns leads Bunton, during an ill-conceived trip to London to make his case against the BBC license fee to Parliament and the media, to purloin the Wellington portrait from the National Gallery.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2021

Or, to purloin a line from his novel: Are we all characters in a Beckett play directed by Sartre?

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2018

He hesitated, then stomped back the way he’d come, stopping to purloin a clean shirt from another cabin.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo